The Kinetics of Epithelial Cell Generati
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J.A. Morris
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A hierarchical model of epithelial cell generation is proposed, in which even in extreme old age mature epithelial cells in humans are only a limited number of cell divisions from the zygote (60}120). This contrasts with conventional models in which regularly cycling stem cells can be several thousa