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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2010

Planar cell polarity: keeping hairs straight is not so simple.

Helen McNeill

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 84 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Integrative Analysis of Key Signalling Pathways in Neural Tube Defects: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Strategies.International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience · 2025
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  2. Localization of cadherins in the postnatal cochlear epithelium and their relation to space formation.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2024
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  11. Identification and characterization of a novel chemically induced allele at the planar cell polarity gene Vangl2.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2018
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  14. Planar cell polarity of the kidney.Experimental cell research · 2016
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  20. Methods for studying planar cell polarity.Methods (San Diego, Calif.) · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Helen McNeillSamuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. mcneill@mshri.on.ca
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The fur on a cat's back, the scales on a fish, or the bristles on a fly are all beautifully organized, with a high degree of polarization in their surface organization. Great progress has been made in understanding how individual cell polarity is established, but our understanding of how cells coordinate their polarity in forming coherent tissues is still fragmentary. The organization of cells in the plane of the epithelium is known as planar cell polarity (PCP), and studies in the past decade have delineated a genetic pathway for the control of PCP. This review will first briefly review data from the Drosophila field, where PCP was first identified and genetically characterized, and then explore how vertebrate tissues become polarized during development.

Indexed as

Cell PolarityAnimalsBody PatterningDrosophila melanogasterEpitheliumGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHairHumansKidney Diseases, CysticMiceModels, BiologicalMutationPhenotype

Identifiers

PMID20182624
PMCPMC2828277
OpenAlexW2098671627

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