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Introduction Development of the gastrointestinal tract involves crucial processes, including endoderm formation and patterning along the anterior-to-posterior, dorsoventral, and left-right axis; gut tube morphogenesis into the foregut, midgut, and hindgut domains; assembly of mesenchyme, epithelial morphogenesis, and cytodifferentiation. The organogenesis…
7.1 Introduction The gastrointestinal (GI) tract must maintain a barrier to food antigens and the microbial communities within the gut, while continually producing an array of specialized cell types to carry out digestive, absorptive, and regulatory functions unique to each…