Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered that bacteria can drive stem cell regeneration to repair the intestinal lining after injury—uncovering an unexpected way in which the gut ...

Representative 3d rendering of the longitudinal view of one crypt of SAMR1 mouse. the epithelial layer of the crypt has been rendered in green. the Paneth cells are colored in yellow and the goblet ...

Crypt-base-columnar cells are continuously dividing intestinal stem cells that generate IECs, which are composed by distinct specialised cell types that play different functions: Enterocytes (in the ...