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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Ajay Gulati
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-9013 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology 20071115 1
The high rate of turnover of the intestinal epithelium is maintained by a group of stem cells that reside at the base of the crypts of Lieberkuhn. Whereas the existence of these intestinal epithelial stem cells has been well established, their study has been limited due to the inability to isolate them. Previous work has utilized side population (SP) sorting of the murine small intestine to isolate a viable fraction of cells enriched for putative intestinal epithelial stem cells. In the present ...[more]