Article
Impaired development of interstitial cells and intestinal electrical rhythmicity in steel mutants.
The American journal of physiology - 1 Dec 1995
Ward S M, Burns A J, Torihashi S, Harney S C, Sanders K M
Abstract excerpt
Electrical rhythmicity in the gastrointestinal tract may originate in interstitial cells of Cajal (IC). Development of IC in the small intestine is linked to signaling via the tyrosine kinase receptor, c-kit. IC express c-kit protein, and disruption of c-kit signaling causes breakdown in IC netwo...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Chromosome Mapping
- Intestine, Small
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mutation
- Myenteric Plexus
- Myoelectric Complex, Migrating
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit
- Signal Transduction
