Figure 5.

Schematic representation of the different cells that could differentiate from the intestinal stem cells. They could present an absorptive pattern or a secretory activity, including enteroendocrine cells, Paneth cells, and goblet cells. EC: enterochromaffin cell; black arrows and black dotted arrows represent the differentiation process from staminal to intestinal specific cells. The Figure is obtained from Beumer et al., 2020. Reprinted under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY license [3].