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Notch/gamma-secretase inhibition turns proliferative cells in intestinal crypts and adenomas into goblet cells.
Nature - 16 Jun 2005
van Es Johan H, van Gijn Marielle E, Riccio Orbicia, van den Born Maaike, Vooijs Marc, Begthel Harry, Cozijnsen Miranda, Robine Sylvie, Winton Doug J, Radtke Freddy, Clevers Hans
Abstract excerpt
The self-renewing epithelium of the small intestine is ordered into stem/progenitor crypt compartments and differentiated villus compartments. Recent evidence indicates that the Wnt cascade is the dominant force in controlling cell fate along the crypt-villus axis. Here we show a rapid, massive conversion of proliferative crypt cells into post-mitotic goblet cells after conditional removal of the common Notch...
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