Intestinal epithelial organoids fuse to form self-organizing tubes in floating collagen gels

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1107-1112

  Sachs, Norman ^a   Tsukamoto, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kujala, Pekka ^b   Peters, Peter J ^c   Clevers, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collagen gel; Matrigel; Mini gut; Mouse; Organoid; Tube

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN GEL; COLLAGEN; GEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBEDDING; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINAL STEM CELL; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; INTESTINE VILLUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GEL; INTESTINE MUCOSA; PHARMACOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RAT; STEM CELL; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; COLLAGEN; GELS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICE; ORGANOIDS; RATS; STEM CELLS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 85015265942     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.143933     Document Type: Article

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