A continuously increasing number of regulatory peptides has been demonstrated to be
expressed in the intestine and to modulate several functional properties of various intestinal
cell populations, including the intestinal epithelium and lamina propria cell populations.
These regulatory peptides include members of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) family, the
transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) family, the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) family, the
fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family, the trefoil factor (TFF) family, the colony-stimulating …