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Loss of epithelial RelA results in deregulated intestinal proliferative/apoptotic homeostasis and susceptibility to inflammation.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Feb 2008
Steinbrecher Kris A, Harmel-Laws Eleana, Sitcheran Raquel, Baldwin Albert S
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NF-kappaB plays a central, proinflammatory role in chronic intestinal inflammation, yet recent work suggests a predominantly protective function for this transcription factor group in some cell types of the intestine. We herein describe the conditional deletion of the NF-kappaB RelA gene in murine intestinal epithelia and determine its function in homeostatic control of enterocyte proliferation/apoptosis and...
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