Cell Reports (Dec 2015)

Stem Cells Matter in Response to Fasting

  • Badi Sri Sailaja,
  • Xi C. He,
  • Linheng Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2015.12.008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 11
pp. 2325 – 2326

Abstract

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The molecular processes underlying intestinal adaptation to fasting and re-feeding remain largely uncharacterized. In this issue of Cell Reports, Richmond et al. report that dormant intestinal stem cells are regulated by PTEN and nutritional status.