ReviewDevelopmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists2006
Development of the upper lip: morphogenetic and molecular mechanisms.
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- Effects of Smoothened Agonist Exposure on Murine Craniofacial Development.International dental journal · 2026Article
- A study of sex-specific genetic effects underlying risk of orofacial clefts also highlights the potential impact of sequencing errors due to short read mis-mapping.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- A Twist1-regulated distal enhancer crucial for Alx1 gene expression and function during craniofacial development.Developmental biology · 2026Article
- Multiscale Convergence of Signaling, Epigenetic, and Environmental Networks in Mammalian Palatogenesis and Cleft Palate Pathogenesis.International journal of stem cells · 2026Review
- Rare variants in FAT3 as possible contributors to non-syndromic orofacial cleft risk.Human genomics · 2026Article
- Gene expression dynamics of human and mouse craniofacial development at the single-cell level.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Cumulative evidence for the association between maternal hypertension and cleft lip and palate in offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oral health · 2026Review
- Positional programs in early murine facial development and their role in human facial shape variability.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Overexpression of miR-320-3p, miR-381-3p, and miR-27a-3p Suppresses Genes Related to Midline Facial Cleft in Mouse Cranial Neural Crest Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- The developmental bases of cleft lip and cleft palate: cellular and molecular mechanisms.Anatomy & cell biology · 2025Review
- Sidedness in Unilateral Orofacial Clefts: A Systematic Scoping Review.The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · 2025Article
- Expression analysis of genes including Zfhx4 in mice and zebrafish reveals a temporospatial conserved molecular basis underlying craniofacial development.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2025Article
- Molecular Regulation of Palatogenesis and Clefting: An Integrative Analysis of Genetic, Epigenetic Networks, and Environmental Interactions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Gene expression patterns of the developing human face at single cell resolution reveal cell type contributions to normal facial variation and disease risk.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The vertebrate upper lip forms from initially freely projecting maxillary, medial nasal, and lateral nasal prominences at the rostral and lateral boundaries of the primitive oral cavity. These facial prominences arise during early embryogenesis from ventrally migrating neural crest cells in combination with the head ectoderm and mesoderm and undergo directed growth and expansion around the nasal pits to actively fuse with each other. Initial fusion is between lateral and medial nasal processes and is followed by fusion between maxillary and medial nasal processes. Fusion between these prominences involves active epithelial filopodial and adhering interactions as well as programmed cell death. Slight defects in growth and patterning of the facial mesenchyme or epithelial fusion result in cleft lip with or without cleft palate, the most common and disfiguring craniofacial birth defect. Recent studies of craniofacial development in animal models have identified components of several major signaling pathways, including Bmp, Fgf, Shh, and Wnt signaling, that are critical for proper midfacial morphogenesis and/or lip fusion. There is also accumulating evidence that these signaling pathways cross-regulate genetically as well as crosstalk intracellularly to control cell proliferation and tissue patterning. This review will summarize the current understanding of the basic morphogenetic processes and molecular mechanisms underlying upper lip development and discuss the complex interactions of the various signaling pathways and challenges for understanding cleft lip pathogenesis.
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