On the utility of a compartmental population kinetics model of intestinal epithelial stem cell proliferation and differentiation

Abstract Background The small intestinal epithelium is a dynamic system with specialized cell types. The various cell populations of this tissue are continually renewed and replenished from stem cells that reside in the small intestinal crypt. The cell types and their locations in the crypt and vill...

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Main Author: Erik R. Barthel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12976-017-0071-8