Transplanted progenitors generate functional enteric neurons in the postnatal colon

Ryo Hotta; Lincon A Stamp; Jaime PP Foong; Sophie N McConnell; Annette J Bergner; Richard B Anderson; Hideki Enomoto; Donald F Newgreen; Florian Obermayr; John B Furness; Heather M Young

Journal article

Transplanted progenitors generate functional enteric neurons in the postnatal colon

Ryo Hotta, Lincon A Stamp, Jaime PP Foong, Sophie N McConnell, Annette J Bergner, Richard B Anderson, Hideki Enomoto, Donald F Newgreen, Florian Obermayr, John B Furness, Heather M Young

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION | AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC | Published : 2013

DOI: 10.1172/JCI65963

University of Melbourne Researchers

Jaime Foong Author Physiology

Heather Young Author Anatomy and Neuroscience

John Furness Author Anatomy and Neuroscience

Annette Bergner Author Anatomy and Neuroscience

Lincon Stamp Author Anatomy and Neuroscience

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank Louise Pontell, Michelle Thacker, Adam Wallace, and DongCheng Zhang for excellent technical assistance and Joel Bornstein for use of equipment. This work was supported by NHMRC project grants 546473 and 1019931 and by ARC Discovery grant DP0878755. F. Obermayr is supported by a Research Fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG; OB 381/1-1).