Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20493806›Full record

ReviewDevelopmental cell2010

Patterning a complex organ: branching morphogenesis and nephron segmentation in kidney development.

Frank Costantini, Raphael Kopan

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Review in Developmental cell, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 399 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
399citing papers in PubMed
21.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

399 citing papers in PubMed, 708 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Genetics of CAKUT.Medizinische Genetik : Mitteilungsblatt des Berufsverbandes Medizinische Genetik e.V · 2026
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339 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Frank CostantiniDepartment of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA. fdc3@columbia.edu
Raphael Kopan
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · USWashington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

Branching Morphogenesis of Urinary Epithelia: from Genes to Cellular BehaviorsR01DK083289 · NIDDK · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI COSTANTINI, FRANKLIN D · 2009 to 2018
$4.9M
Genetic analysis of Pea3 transcription factors and kidney developmentR01DK075578 · NIDDK · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI COSTANTINI, FRANKLIN D · 2006 to 2014
$4.1M
Computational Pathology of Proteinuric DiseasesR01DK118431 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BARISONI, LAURA MARIACHIARA, HODGIN, JEFFREY BENTON · 2018 to 2025
$3.6M
ROLE OF NOTCH AND KIDNEY DEVELOPMENTR01DK066408 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI KOPAN, RAPHAEL · 2004 to 2012
$3.4M
Genetic Control of Ureter and Kidney DevelopmentR01DK082715 · NIDDK · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI COSTANTINI, FRANKLIN D · 2009 to 2013
$3.1M
Histotools: scaling digital pathology curation tools for quality control, annotation, labeling, and dataset identificationR01LM013864 · NLM · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JANOWCZYK, ANDREW ROBERT · 2022 to 2025
$1.4M
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The two major components of the kidney, the collecting system and the nephron, have different developmental histories. The collecting system arises by the reiterated branching of a simple epithelial tube, while the nephron forms from a cloud of mesenchymal cells that coalesce into epithelial vesicles. Each develops into a morphologically complex and highly differentiated structure, and together they provide essential filtration and resorption functions. In this review, we will consider their embryological origin and the genes controlling their morphogenesis, patterning, and differentiation, with a focus on recent advances in several areas.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell DifferentiationCell DivisionEmbryonic DevelopmentFishesKidneyMammalsMiceMorphogenesisNephronsUreter

Identifiers

PMID20493806
PMCPMC2883254
OpenAlexW2084176144

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