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p63-expressing cells are the stem cells of developing prostate, bladder, and colorectal epithelia.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 May 2013
Pignon Jean-Christophe, Grisanzio Chiara, Geng Yan, Song Jiaxi, Shivdasani Ramesh A, Signoretti Sabina
Abstract excerpt
The tumor protein p63 (p63), and more specifically the NH2-terminal truncated (ΔN) p63 isoform, is a marker of basal epithelial cells and is required for normal development of several epithelial tissues, including the bladder and prostate glands. Although p63-expressing cells are proposed to be the stem cells of the developing prostate epithelium and bladder urothelium, cell lineages in these endoderm-derived...
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