Paneth Cell-Rich Regions Separated by a Cluster of Lgr5+ Cells Initiate Crypt Fission in the Intestinal Stem Cell Niche

PLoS Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Langlands, Alistair J ^a   Almet, Axel A ^b   Appleton, Paul L ^a   Newton, Ian P ^a   Osborne, James M ^b   Näthke, Inke S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CLUSTER; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MONITORING; CELL POSITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL STIFFNESS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPT FISSION; DIFFERENTIAL ADHESION; EPITHELIUM CELL; INTESTINAL STEM CELL; INVAGINATION; LGR5+ CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANETH CELL; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; PROCESS MONITORING; STEM CELL NICHE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; AGE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIVISION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; GENETICS; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METABOLISM; SMALL INTESTINE; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

BETA4 INTEGRIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LGR5 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; INTEGRIN BETA4; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANOIDS; PANETH CELLS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84978967806     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002491     Document Type: Article

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