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Intestinal adenomas of Min-mice lack enterochromaffin cells, and have increased lysozyme production in non-Paneth cells.
Anticancer research - 1 Jan 2000
Husøy Trine, Knutsen Helle K, Løberg Else Marit, Alexander Jan
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BACKGROUND: Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) are important in maintaining normal epithelial mucosa. Intestinal tissues with mutations in Apc have disturbed cell proliferation, differentiation and migration. Paneth and enterochromaffin cells were studied in the intestine and intestinal adenomas from Min-mice with heterozygote and homozygote mutations in Apc, respectively. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The presence of...
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