“We’ve built a blueprint of the entire gut, and that’s a remarkable achievement,” said study senior author Ramnik Xavier, the ...

Epithelial cells form in the crypts of villi and migrate to the tips of the villi, where they are shed. This process is ...

the epithelium undergoes rapid cellular turnover and regenerates continuously from multipotent intestinal stem cells (ISCs) present at the crypt base. During homeostasis, the ISC niche exists in the ...

Although rare, tumors in the small intestine can arise ... Microfold (M) cells are a specialized subset of epithelial cells ...

The most comprehensive cell map of the human gut to date has been created by combining spatial and single-cell data from 1.6 ...

According to Dutta, donor intestinal epithelial cells live in the inner lining of the colon and the small intestine. These cells maintain the intestine's structural integrity and functional capacity.

It is a transgenic mutant zebrafish that expressed the green fluorescent protein tagged to a peptide that binds to actin in epithelial cells ... intestine. In the mutants, there also are small ...