Tuft cells are low-abundant IEC components that ... with findings showing that IECs from patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis exhibit heightened ER stress markers.

They then measured changes in tuft cells and various signals. "We were the first to study tuft cell biology across day-night cycles," said Zheng Kuang, assistant professor of biological sciences ...

The cells developed in the lungs of mice after a severe case of flu, they reported on March 25 in the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. These so-called tuft cells ...

Tuft cells constitutively express IL-25 to sustain ... Transcription factor ELF-1 plays a protective role in DSS-induced colitis by directly regulating the expression of the Rack1 gene and ...