Gastroenterology
Volume 130, Issue 4 , Pages 1169-1180 , April 2006

Gastrin Increases Murine Intestinal Crypt Regeneration Following Injury

  • Penelope D. Ottewell

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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  • Carrie A. Duckworth

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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  • Andrea Varro

      Affiliations

    • Division of Physiology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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  • Rod Dimaline

      Affiliations

    • Division of Physiology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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  • Timothy C. Wang

      Affiliations

    • Columbia University, New York, New York
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  • Alastair J.M. Watson

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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  • Graham J. Dockray

      Affiliations

    • Division of Physiology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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  • D. Mark Pritchard

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Dr D.M. Pritchard, Division of Gastroenterology, 5th Floor UCD Building, University of Liverpool, Daulby Street, Liverpool, L69 3GA, UK. fax: 44 151 794 6825

Received 26 April 2005 ,Accepted 14 December 2005.

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 Funded by North West Cancer Research Fund, National Association of Colitis and Crohn’s Disease, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust R and D fund, Medical Research Council. DMP is a Wellcome Trust Advanced Clinical Fellow.

PII: S0016-5085(05)02560-6

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2005.12.033

Gastroenterology
Volume 130, Issue 4 , Pages 1169-1180 , April 2006

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