A gutsy way to grow: intestinal stem cells as nutrient sensors

Abby Sarkar; Konrad Hochedlinger

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.006

A gutsy way to grow: intestinal stem cells as nutrient sensors

Cell. 2011 Oct 28;147(3):487-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.006.

Authors

Abby Sarkar¹, Konrad Hochedlinger

Affiliation

¹ Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

PMID: 22036555
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.006

Abstract

Adult tissues can rapidly and reversibly change size to adapt to environmental and behavioral influences. In this issue, O'Brien et al. (2011) demonstrate that fly intestinal stem cells alter their division patterns in response to food availability to drive organ growth.

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