BMP gradient along the intestinal villus axis controls zonated enterocyte and goblet cell states

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Intestinal epithelial cells derive from stem cells at the crypt base and travel along the crypt-villus axis to die at the villus tip. The two dominant villus epithelial cell types, absorptive enterocytes and mucous-secreting goblet cells, are mature when they exit crypts. Murine enterocytes switch functional cell states during migration along the villus. Here, we ask whether this zonation is driven by the bone...

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