Article
Epithelial zonation along the mouse and human small intestine defines five discrete metabolic domains
2023-09-22
Abstract excerpt
A key aspect of nutrient absorption is the exquisite division of labor across the length of the small intestine, with individual classes of micronutrients taken up at different positions. For millennia, the small intestine was thought to comprise three segments with indefinite borders: the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. By examining fine-scale longitudinal segmentation of the mouse and human small intestines, we id...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1811ecbc-581b-558a-8252-fa2e8f0fce01
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.09.20.558726
