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digestive tract development

Known as: gut development, intestinal development, intestine development 
The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the digestive tract over time, from its formation to the mature structure. The digestive… 
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digestive system development

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digestive tract morphogenesisenteric smooth muscle cell differentiationintestinal epithelial cell differentiationpharynx development

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Mst1 and Mst2 protein kinases restrain intestinal stem cell proliferation and colonic tumorigenesis by inhibition of Yes-associated protein (Yap) overabundance
Ablation of the kinases Mst1 and Mst2, orthologs of the Drosophila antiproliferative kinase Hippo, from mouse intestinal… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Current view: intestinal stem cells and signaling.
Studies using mice have yielded significant amounts of information regarding signaling pathways, such as Wnt, bone morphogenic… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Paneth cells, defensins, and the commensal microbiota: a hypothesis on intimate interplay at the intestinal mucosa.
Review
2003
Review
2003
Development and differentiation of the intestinal epithelium
AbstractThe gastrointestinal tract develops from a simple tube to a complex organ with patterns of differentiation along four… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Unique and conserved aspects of gut development in zebrafish.
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
The Cdx2 homeobox gene has a tumour suppressor function in the distal colon in addition to a homeotic role during gut development
Background: During development, the homeobox gene Cdx2 exerts a homeotic function, providing the positional information necessary… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
The Drosophila disembodied gene controls late embryonic morphogenesis and codes for a cytochrome P450 enzyme that regulates embryonic ecdysone levels.
Ecdysteroids regulate a wide variety of cellular processes during arthropod development, yet little is known about the genes… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Development of the human gastrointestinal tract: twenty years of progress.
Review
1990
Review
1990
Metabolism and effects of epidermal growth factor and related growth factors in mammals.
The initial observations of Stanley Cohen in the 1960s established that EGF induced in vivo effects such as precocious eyelid… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Tenascin during gut development: appearance in the mesenchyme, shift in molecular forms, and dependence on epithelial-mesenchymal interactions [published erratum appears in J Cell Biol 1989 Mar;108(3…
Tenascin, an extracellular matrix protein, is expressed in the mesenchyme around growing epithelia in the embryo. We therefore… 
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