A Dynamic WNT/β-CATENIN Signaling Environment Leads to WNT-Independent and WNT-Dependent Proliferation of Embryonic Intestinal Progenitor Cells

Stem Cell Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 826-839

  Chin, Alana M ^a   Tsai, Yu Hwai ^a   Finkbeiner, Stacy R ^a   Nagy, Melinda S ^a   Walker, Emily M ^b   Ethen, Nicole J ^c   Williams, Bart O ^c   Battle, Michele A ^b   Spence, Jason R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

development; epithelium; intestine; morphogenesis; progenitor cell; proliferation; stem cell; villus; WNT; CATENIN

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; WNT PROTEIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; GENE DELETION; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; INTESTINE VILLUS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOSTRATIFIED STAGE; SMALL INTESTINE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; INTESTINE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METABOLISM; ORGANOGENESIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WNT SIGNALING;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINES; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR-RELATED PROTEIN-5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR-RELATED PROTEIN-6; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; ORGANOGENESIS; RECEPTOR, PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WNT PROTEINS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84992065194     PISSN: 22136711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2016.09.004     Document Type: Article

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