Original Article
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World J Gastroenterol. Apr 14, 2012; 18(14): 1579-1589
Published online Apr 14, 2012. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i14.1579
Dual regulatory role for phosphatase and tensin homolog in specification of intestinal endocrine cell subtypes
Sébastien AB Roy, Marie-Josée Langlois, Julie C Carrier, François Boudreau, Nathalie Rivard, Nathalie Perreault
Sébastien AB Roy, Marie-Josée Langlois, François Boudreau, Nathalie Rivard, Nathalie Perreault, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Team on Digestive Epithelium, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke J1H 5N4, QC, Canada
Julie C Carrier, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Team on Digestive Epithelium, Service of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke J1H 5N4, QC, Canada
Author contributions: Carrier JC, Boudreau F, Rivard N and Perreault N designed the research; Roy SAB and Langlois MJ performed the research; all authors analyzed the data; Langlois MJ drafted the paper; Perreault N wrote the paper.
Supported by The Canadian Institutes of Health Research team grant, CTP-82942 to Carrier JC, Boudreau F, Rivard N, Perreault N; Carrier JC, Boudreau F and Perreault N are scholars from the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec; Rivard N is a recipient of a Canadian Research Chair in Signaling and Digestive Physiopathology; Rivard N, Perreault N, Carrier JC and Boudreau F are members of the FRSQ-funded “Centre de Recherche Clinique Étienne Lebel”
Correspondence to: Nathalie Perreault, PhD, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001 12e Ave Nord, Sherbrooke J1H 5N4, QC, Canada. nathalie.perreault@usherbrooke.ca
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Received: November 24, 2011
Revised: February 6, 2012
Accepted: February 26, 2012
Published online: April 14, 2012
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