Intestinal Stem Cells Live Off the Fat of the Land.

Barisas, Derek A G; Stappenbeck, Thaddeus S · Cell Stem Cell · 2018

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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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