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Generation of Murine Primary Colon Epithelial Monolayers from Intestinal Crypts
Published on: February 6, 2021
Variable renewal rate and growth properties of cell populations in colon crypts
A Di Garbo1, M D Johnston, S J Chapman
1Istituto di Biofisica CNR, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Abstract:
A nonlinear mathematical model is used to investigate the time evolution of the cell populations in colon crypts (stem, semidifferentiated and fully differentiated cells). To mimic pathological alteration of the biochemical pathways leading to abnormal proliferative activity of the population of semidifferentiated cells their renewal rate is assumed to be dependent on the population size. Then, the effects of such perturbation on the population dynamics are investigated theoretically. Using both theoretical methods and numerical simulations it is shown that the increase in the renewal rate of semidifferentiated cells strongly impacts the dynamical behavior of the cell populations.
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