Gastroenterology
Volume 133, Issue 2 , Pages 710-712 , August 2007

Intestinal Development: The Many Faces of Wnt Signaling

  • Archana Kapoor
    • ,
  • H. Joyce Li
    • ,
  • Andrew B. Leiter

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Andrew Leiter, MD, Division of Gastroenterology/Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605. fax: (508) 856-4770.

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PII: S0016-5085(07)01170-5

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2007.06.029

Gastroenterology
Volume 133, Issue 2 , Pages 710-712 , August 2007

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