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Testing the hypothesis that crypt cell hyperplasia inhibits lactase expression by mouse jejunal enterocytes
M W Smith1, S Lloyd, P S James
1Department of Cell Biology, AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology (Cambridge, England)
|September 1, 1988
Abstract:
Lactase activity and crypt cell proliferation both increased significantly in mouse jejunal villi in the presence of the intestinal parasite Nematospiroides dubius. Comparisons are made between this result and others showing lactase activity to decline whenever crypt cell proliferation is increased.