RTK Signaling Promotes Epithelial Columnar Cell Shape and Apical Junction Maintenance in Human Lung Progenitor Cells Icon for the Forest of Biologists
Investigators used the organoid system to identify signaling pathways that maintained the columnar shape of human lung tip progenitors. They found that EGF, FGF7, and FGF10 had distinct functions in lung tip progenitors.
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