Intestinal crypts recover rapidly from focal damage with coordinated motion of stem cells that is impaired by aging
J. Choi, N. Rakhilin, P. Gadamsetty, D. J. Joe, T. Tabrizian, S. M. Lipkin, D. Huffman, X. Shen, N. Nishimura
This study shows that intestinal crypts rapidly recover from focal damage through coordinated stem cell motion, which is impaired by aging.
bioRxiv · Nov 13, 2017Physiology