Stem cells make the bowel nervous

Robert O. Heuckeroth ()
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Robert O. Heuckeroth: Robert O. Heuckeroth is at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute and the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.

Nature, 2016, vol. 531, issue 7592, 44-45

Abstract: In Hirschsprung disease, the enteric nervous system (ENS) is missing from the distal bowel. It emerges that postnatal transplantation of stem-cell-derived ENS precursors can prevent death in a mouse model of the disease. See Letter p.105

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/nature16877

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