Update on small intestinal stem cells

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 19, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 4671-4678

  Tesori, Valentina ^a,b   Puglisi, Maria Ausiliatrice ^b   Lattanzi, Wanda ^a   Gasbarrini, Giovanni Battista ^c   Gasbarrini, Antonio ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^c Medical Research Foundation ONLUS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intestinal regeneration; Intestinal stem cells; Lgr5; Niche; Organoids

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR; CD133 ANTIGEN; OSTEOGENIN; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT3A PROTEIN;

GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84881053984     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i29.4671     Document Type: Review

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