Stem cell in the adult Drosophila hindgut: just a sleeping beauty.
The Drosophila hindgut was suggested to harbor constitutively active stem cells. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Fox and Spradling (2009) demonstrate that this organ contains only dormant stem cells capable of proliferating and producing differentiated cells in response to injury.
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Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA. tgx@stowers.org
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