Paneth cells: Maestros of the small intestinal crypts

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2013, Pages 289-311

  Clevers, Hans C ^a   Bevins, Charles L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Defensin; Innate immunity; Stem cell niche

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; ALPHA DEFENSIN; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DEXTRAN SULFATE; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR AGONIST; X BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; AUTOPHAGY; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR SECRETION; CROHN DISEASE; CRYPT CELL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; PANETH CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; STEM CELL NICHE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; METAGENOME; MICE; PANETH CELLS;

EID: 84873672050     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: 15451585     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physiol-030212-183744     Document Type: Review

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