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Split decisions: oesophageal progenitor cell behaviour

The EMBO Journal. doi:10.1038/emboj.2012.230

Author: Valerie Horsley

The maintenance and regeneration of continually shedding epithelial tissues that make up the linings and barriers of our bodies requires rapid and continual input of proliferative progenitor cells for tissue homeostasis. The mechanisms by which epithelial progenitors cells maintain tissues remain controversial. In a recent Science paper, Doupé et al (2012) demonstrate that a population of equivalent progenitor cells support tissue homeostasis of the oesophagus without the need for slow cycling cells as described in other rapidly dividing epithelia.

Authors:   Valerie Horsley
Journal:   The EMBO Journal AOP
Year:   2012
DOI:   10.1038/emboj.2012.230
Publication date:   10-08-2012

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