Boundaries, junctions and transitions in the gastrointestinal tract

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 317, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 2711-2718

  San Roman, Adrianna K ^a,b   Shivdasani, Ramesh A ^a,c  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Digestive tract development; Gastro duodenal boundary; Gastro esophageal junction; Homeobox genes in gut development; Transcriptional regulation of tissue identity

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANATOMY; CECUM; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DUODENUM; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HOX GENE; HUMAN; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; LARGE INTESTINE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE; SPHINCTER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 80455173947     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: 10902422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2011.07.011     Document Type: Review

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