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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2013

Tympanic border cells are Wnt-responsive and can act as progenitors for postnatal mouse cochlear cells.

Taha Adnan Jan, Renjie Chai, Zahra Nabi Sayyid, Renée van Amerongen, Anping Xia, Tian Wang, Saku Tapani Sinkkonen, Yi Arial Zeng, Jared Ruben Levin, Stefan Heller and 2 more

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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62 citing papers in PubMed, 89 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of the mouse cochlea: An atlas for targeted therapies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Taha Adnan JanDepartment of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Renjie Chai
Zahra Nabi Sayyid
Renée van Amerongen
Anping Xia
Tian Wang
Saku Tapani Sinkkonen
Yi Arial Zeng
Jared Ruben Levin
Stefan Heller
Roel Nusse
Alan Gi-Lun Cheng
Stanford University · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

INNER EAR PROGENITOR CELLSR01DC006167 · NIDCD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI HELLER, STEFAN · 2003 to 2013
$4.0M
Stanford OHNS Core CenterP30DC010363 · NIDCD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI RICCI, ANTHONY J · 2009 to 2016
$3.0M
Patient derived sensory hair- and supporting cell-like cellsR01DC012250 · NIDCD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI HELLER, STEFAN · 2012 to 2016
$2.7M
Pathways towards regenerating the mammalian cochleaR01DC013910 · NIDCD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHENG, ALAN GI-LUN · 2015 to 2019
$2.1M
Regulation of Inner Ear Stem CellsK08DC011043 · NIDCD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHENG, ALAN GI-LUN · 2010 to 2014
$1.1M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIDCD NIH HHS K08 DC011043NIDCD NIH HHS P30 DC010363NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC006167NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC012250NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC013910
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Permanent hearing loss is caused by the irreversible damage of cochlear sensory hair cells and nonsensory supporting cells. In the postnatal cochlea, the sensory epithelium is terminally differentiated, whereas tympanic border cells (TBCs) beneath the sensory epithelium are proliferative. The functions of TBCs are poorly characterized. Using an Axin2(lacZ) Wnt reporter mouse, we found transient but robust Wnt signaling and proliferation in TBCs during the first 3 postnatal weeks, when the number of TBCs decreases. In vivo lineage tracing shows that a subset of hair cells and supporting cells is derived postnatally from Axin2-expressing TBCs. In cochlear explants, Wnt agonists stimulated the proliferation of TBCs, whereas Wnt inhibitors suppressed it. In addition, purified Axin2(lacZ) cells were clonogenic and self-renewing in culture in a Wnt-dependent manner, and were able to differentiate into hair cell-like and supporting cell-like cells. Taken together, our data indicate that Axin2-positive TBCs are Wnt responsive and can act as precursors to sensory epithelial cells in the postnatal cochlea.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnimals, NewbornAxin ProteinCell DifferentiationCell ProliferationCells, CulturedChickensCochleaEar, MiddleHair Cells, AuditoryMiceMice, TransgenicModels, BiologicalStem CellsWnt Signaling PathwayAxin2 protein, mouseAxin Protein

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PMID23444352
PMCPMC3585657
OpenAlexW2045146348

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