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Modelling Barrett's oesophagus.
Biochemical Society transactions - 1 Apr 2010
Kong Jianping, Stairs Douglas B, Lynch John P
Abstract excerpt
Barrett's oesophagus is the replacement of normal squamous oesophageal epithelium with an intestinalized columnar epithelium. Although some insight has been gained as to what Barrett's oesophagus is, how this columnar epithelium emerges from within a stratified squamous epithelium remains an unanswered question. We have sought to determine whether oesophageal keratinocytes can be trans-differentiated into...
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