Gastroenterology
Volume 134, Issue 1 , Pages 192-203.e2 , January 2008

Epithelial: Lamina Propria Lymphocyte Interactions Promote Epithelial Cell Differentiation

  • Stephanie Dahan

      Affiliations

    • Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
    • ,
  • Giulia Roda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
    • ,
  • David Pinn

      Affiliations

    • Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
    • ,
  • Franziska Roth–Walter

      Affiliations

    • Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
    • ,
  • Okebugwu Kamalu

      Affiliations

    • Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
    • ,
  • Andrea P. Martin

      Affiliations

    • Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
    • ,
  • Lloyd Mayer

      Affiliations

    • Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Lloyd Mayer, MD, Immunobiology Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1089; New York City, New York 10029. fax: (212) 987-5593.

Received 12 September 2006 ,Accepted 7 September 2007.

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 Supported by NIH grants AI23504, DK58288, and AI44236 and by NIH-NCI shared resources grant (5R24 CA095823-04), NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant (DBI-9724504), and NIH shared instrumentation grant (1 S10 RR0 9145-01) for light microscopy performed at the MSSM-Microscopy Shared Resource Facility.

 Conflicts of interest: There are no conflicts of interest to disclose.

PII: S0016-5085(07)01848-3

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2007.10.022

Gastroenterology
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