Stem cell kinetics and intestinal cancer.

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Stem cell kinetics and intestinal cancer.

Anticancer research - 1 Jan 2000

Morris J A

Abstract excerpt

The conventional view that intestinal stem cells divide every few days so that each stem cell undergoes several thousand divisions in a lifetime is challenged. It is proposed that fully differentiated cells, even in old age, are no more than sixty divisions from the zygote. This concept leads to...

Topics

Aged
Aging
Animals
Cell Cycle
Humans
Intestinal Neoplasms
Intestines
Male
Mice
Models, Biological
Mutation
Stem Cells

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