Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have identified a metabolic switch that determines whether intestinal stem cells become absorptive or secretory cells. Manipulating the enzyme OGDH ...
A newly identified subset of intestinal epithelial cells act as both the major target and a key responder in a mouse model of gut infection by the bacteria Citrobacter rodentium BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – ...
Xu and colleagues were investigating the turnover of epithelial cells that line the intestines of fruit flies. As with the human small intestine, the epithelial tissue in the midgut of adult fruit ...