Science news articles about 'paneth cells'

... gene targeting, a method of using embryonic stem cells to "knock out" genes in mice, then observing ... farther down in the crypt, intermingled among "Paneth" cells, which produce enzymes to kill bacteria ...

... autophagy that lets cells consume and reuse their own resources and may have other functions as well. Paneth cells in this line of mice had impairments similar to the first line, suggesting that ...

... known as villi and valleys called crypts. The crypts contain stem cells and so-called ... team earlier showed that tiny cells intermingled with the Paneth cells of the intestine do have the characteristics ...

... in the gut to prevent illness. Earlier studies had found that some antimicrobial proteins produced by Paneth cells are activated only when bacteria are present. What remained unclear, though, was ...