Fig. 2From: On the utility of a compartmental population kinetics model of intestinal epithelial stem cell proliferation and differentiationSchematic of hexagonal arrangement of crypts (red) and villi (blue) in mouse ileum. The dashed green triangle represents a unit cell of the 2-dimensional lattice, demonstrating one of several possible arrangements that show that each villus is supplied with cells from, on average, 2 cryptsBack to article page