Graded BMP signaling within intestinal crypt architecture directs self-organization of the Wnt-secreting stem cell niche

J Kraiczy, N McCarthy, E Malagola, G Tie, S Madha… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Signals from the surrounding niche drive proliferation and suppress differentiation of
intestinal stem cells (ISCs) at the bottom of intestinal crypts. Among sub-epithelial support …

Methods and platforms for analysis of nucleic acids from single-cell based on microfluidics

L Liu, X Dong, Y Tu, G Miao, Z Zhang, L Zhang… - Microfluidics and …, 2021 - Springer
Single-cell nucleic acid analysis aims at discovering the genetic differences between
individual cells which is well known as the cellular heterogeneity. This technology facilitates …

TGFB1 induces fetal reprogramming and enhances intestinal regeneration

L Chen, X Qiu, A Dupre, O Pellon-Cardenas, X Fan… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The gut epithelium has a remarkable ability to recover from damage. We employed a
combination of high-throughput sequencing approaches, mouse genetics, and murine and …

Nectin-3 and shed forms of CSPG4 can serve as epithelial cell receptors for Clostridioides difficile TcdB

KO Childress, CS Cencer, MJ Tyska, DB Lacy - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clostridioides difficile is a Gram-positive bacterium that can cause mild to severe diarrhea,
inflammation, and colonic tissue damage in animal hosts. Symptoms of the disease can be …

Charting the cellular biogeography in colitis reveals fibroblast trajectories and coordinated spatial remodeling

P Cadinu, KN Sivanathan, A Misra, RJ Xu, D Mangani… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Gut inflammation involves contributions from immune and non-immune cells, whose
interactions are shaped by the spatial organization of the healthy gut and its remodeling …

Effects of flora deficiency on the structure and function of the large intestine

T Chai, J Shen, Y Sheng, Y Huang, W Liang, Z Zhang… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
The significant anatomical changes in large intestine of germ-free (GF) mice provide
excellent material for understanding microbe-host crosstalk. We observed significant …

[HTML][HTML] Inadvertent nucleotide sequence alterations during mutagenesis: highlighting the vulnerabilities in mouse transgenic technology

A Ghosh, R Chakrabarti, PC Shukla - Journal of Genetic Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the last three decades, researchers have utilized genome engineering to alter the DNA
sequence in the living cells of a plethora of organisms, ranging from plants, fishes, mice, to …