Oct 23, 2023
Reaching the Tip
Enterocytes, the cells lining the intestine that take up water, nutrients and minerals, migrate from the intestinal crypt to the tip of the finger-like projections called villi. Using an organoid system enriched for villus tip enterocytes, this study characterises the molecular changes that govern their unique features
Read the published research paper here
Image from work by Linda Berková and colleagues
Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Biology, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published in EMBO Reports, July 2023
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