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Transplanted progenitors generate functional enteric neurons in the postnatal colon.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Mar 2013
Hotta Ryo, Stamp Lincon A, Foong Jaime P P, McConnell Sophie N, Bergner Annette J, Anderson Richard B, Enomoto Hideki, Newgreen Donald F, Obermayr Florian, Furness John B, Young Heather M
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Cell therapy has the potential to treat gastrointestinal motility disorders caused by diseases of the enteric nervous system. Many studies have demonstrated that various stem/progenitor cells can give rise to functional neurons in the embryonic gut; however, it is not yet known whether transplanted neural progenitor cells can migrate, proliferate, and generate functional neurons in the postnatal bowel in vivo. We...
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