An Efficient Method for Cloning Gastrointestinal Stem Cells From Patients via Endoscopic Biopsies

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Houston, Texas.
• ² Bio-Techne, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• ³ Tract Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts.
• ⁴ Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ⁵ Departments of Medicine and Pathology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• ⁶ Division of Gastroenterology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
• ⁷ Division of Digestive Diseases, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut.
• ⁸ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
• ⁹ Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School of University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, McGovern Medical School of University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas. Electronic address: wa.xian@uth.tmc.edu.