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What to do About Gastric Polyps
When clinicians detect a gastric polyp during endoscopy, they are faced with many questions: does the polyp need to be excised, or can a biopsy sample be collected and analyzed? Which polyps should be biopsied? Should patients then be followed, … Continue reading
How do Intestinal Stem Cells get their Wnt?
Intestinal homeostasis and stem cells are not affected when Paneth cells stop producing Wnt, but Wnt is required to maintain the stem cell niche in intestinal epithelial cultures, according to a mouse study in the December issue of Gastroenterology. These … Continue reading
Posted in Cancer, GI Tract, Technology
Tagged crypt, development, growth, intestine, Lgr, maintenance, mouse model, Paneth cell, stem cell, therapy, tissue regeneration, treatment, Wnt
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