Stem cells in intestinal cancer. Illustration by Gardenia Gonzalez Gil

Stem cells in cancer of the intestine

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Illustration for Dr. Clever's paper "Searching for adult stem cells in the intestine".

Published in EMBO Molecular Medicine vol.5, 2009.

Section A pictures a normal crypt with stem cells colored green.

Section B illustrates what happens when APC is deleted in one of the stem cells. The offspring continuously proliferates and fails to leave the crypt originating a large "green" adenoma.

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