Gastroenterology
Volume 137, Issue 2 , Pages 618-628 , August 2009

Paracrine Hedgehog Signaling in Stomach and Intestine: New Roles for Hedgehog in Gastrointestinal Patterning

  • Åsa Kolterud

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Ann S. Grosse

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • William J. Zacharias

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Katherine D. Walton

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Katherine E. Kretovich

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Blair B. Madison

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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  • Meghna Waghray

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Jennifer E. Ferris

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Chunbo Hu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Juanita L. Merchant

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Andrzej A. Dlugosz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Andreas H. Kottmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Genome Center and Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Columbia University, New York, New York
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  • Deborah L. Gumucio

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: Deborah L. Gumucio, PhD, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, 109 Zina Pitcher Place, 2045 BSRB, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2200. fax: (734) 647-9559

Received 9 November 2008 ,Accepted 6 May 2009.

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 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding Supported by National Institutes of Health grants R01 DK065850 (to D.L.G.) and P01 DK62041 (to D.L.G., J.L.M., and A.A.D.); the Organogenesis Training Program, T32-HD007505 (to W.J.Z., A.S.G., and Å.K.); and the Hematology Training Program, T32-HL07622 (to K.D.W.).

PII: S0016-5085(09)00746-X

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.05.002

Gastroenterology
Volume 137, Issue 2 , Pages 618-628 , August 2009

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