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Split decisions: oesophageal progenitor cell behaviour
Author(s) -
Horsley Valerie
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.1038/emboj.2012.230
Subject(s) - progenitor cell , biology , progenitor , stem cell , population , haven , microbiology and biotechnology , regeneration (biology) , developmental biology , sociology , demography , mathematics , combinatorics
The molecular features and functional contributions of epithelial progenitors remain controversial. A recent study in Science reports on seemingly equivalent oesophageal progenitors that maintain tissue homeostasis in the absence of slow cycling cell populations.