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Intestinal epithelium-derived BMP controls stem cell self-renewal in Drosophila adult midgut.
eLife - 11 Mar 2014
Tian Aiguo, Jiang Jin
Abstract excerpt
Stem cells are maintained in a specialized microenvironment called niche but the nature of stem cell niche remains poorly defined in many systems. Here we demonstrate that intestinal epithelium-derived BMP serves as a niche signal for intestinal stem cell (ISC) self-renewal in Drosophila adult midgut. We find that BMP signaling is asymmetric between ISC and its differentiated daughter cell. Two BMP ligands, Dpp...
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