Stem cell and progenitor fate in the mammalian intestine: Notch and lateral inhibition in homeostasis and disease

EMBO Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 571-581

  Sancho, Rocio ^a   Cremona, Catherine A ^a   Behrens, Axel ^a,b  

^a THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

intestinal stem cells; lateral inhibition; Notch

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENTERITIS; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTESTINAL STEM CELL; INTESTINE CANCER; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UBIQUITINATION; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; STEM CELL;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINES; NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84928926944     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201540188     Document Type: Review

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