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. 2018 May 3;22(5):611-612.
doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2018.04.018.

Intestinal Stem Cells Live Off the Fat of the Land

Derek A G Barisas  1 , Thaddeus S Stappenbeck  2
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Intestinal Stem Cells Live Off the Fat of the Land

Derek A G Barisas et al. Cell Stem Cell. .
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Abstract

In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Mihaylova et al. (2018) show that short-term fasting increases serum levels of long-chain fatty acids, presumably derived from the host. This effect in turn can rescue age-related phenotypes that occur in intestinal epithelial stem cells.

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