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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2009

Is left-right asymmetry a form of planar cell polarity?

Sherry Aw, Michael Levin

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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36citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Micropatterning of cells reveals chiral morphogenesis.Stem cell research & therapy · 2013
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  13. Early, nonciliary role for microtubule proteins in left-right patterning is conserved across kingdoms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sherry AwCenter for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University, 200 Boston Ave., Suite 4600, Boston, MA 02155, USA.
Michael Levin
Tufts University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Consistent left-right (LR) patterning is a clinically important embryonic process. However, key questions remain about the origin of asymmetry and its amplification across cell fields. Planar cell polarity (PCP) solves a similar morphogenetic problem, and although core PCP proteins have yet to be implicated in embryonic LR asymmetry, studies of mutations affecting planar polarity, together with exciting new data in cell and developmental biology, provide a new perspective on LR patterning. Here we propose testable models for the hypothesis that LR asymmetry propagates as a type of PCP that imposes coherent orientation onto cell fields, and that the cue that orients this polarization is a chiral intracellular structure.

Indexed as

Models, BiologicalAnimalsBody PatterningCell PolarityDrosophilaGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalSignal TransductionXenopus

Identifiers

PMID19141667
PMCPMC2687587
OpenAlexW2076635114

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