| Literature DB >> 27624395 |
Rocío López-Posadas1, Markus F Neurath1, Imke Atreya2.
Abstract
Due to the fact that chronic inflammation as well as tumorigenesis in the gut is crucially impacted by the fate of intestinal epithelial cells, our article provides a comprehensive overview of the composition, function, regulation and homeostasis of the gut epithelium. In particular, we focus on those aspects which were found to be altered in the context of inflammatory bowel diseases or colorectal cancer and also discuss potential molecular targets for a disease-specific therapeutic intervention.Entities:
Keywords: Colitis-associated cancer; Colorectal cancer; Epithelial integrity; Inflammatory bowel diseases; Intestinal epithelial cells
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27624395 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-016-2363-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Mol Life Sci ISSN: 1420-682X Impact factor: 9.261