Article
Bombesin maintains enterocyte phenotype in fasted rats.
Surgery - 1 Aug 1994
Hodin R A, Meng S, Shei A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested a relationship between enterocyte phenotype and the growth state of the epithelium; under atrophic conditions, lactase gene expression is high, whereas intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) expression is low, and vice versa. On the basis of this model,...
Topics
- Alkaline Phosphatase
- Animals
- Atrophy
- Bombesin
- Fasting
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Intestines
- Lactase
- Male
- Microvilli
- Phenotype
- RNA, Messenger
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
