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ReviewCurrent opinion in cell biology2014

Diverse and dynamic sources and sinks in gradient formation and directed migration.

Danfeng Cai, Denise J Montell

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Review in Current opinion in cell biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Finishing the egg.Genetics · 2024
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  2. Modeling protein dynamics inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  4. Born to Run? Diverse Modes of Epithelial Migration.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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  5. Tissue topography steers migratingScience (New York, N.Y.) · 2020
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  6. Dissemination of RasNature communications · 2020
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  13. Modeling and analysis of collective cell migration in an in vivo three-dimensional environment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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  14. The front and rear of collective cell migration.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2016
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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

2 authors.

Danfeng CaiDepartment of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9625, USA.
Denise J MontellMolecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9625, USA. Electronic address: denise.montell@lifesci.ucsb.edu.

Funding

Spatiotemporal regulation of collective cell behaviors in Drosophila: Diversity Supplement for Predoctoral TrainingR01GM046425 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI MONTELL, DENISE J. · 1996 to 2025
$11.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM046425NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM46425
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The traditional view of directional cell migration within a tissue is that it requires a gradient of a soluble attractive chemical that is stable in space and time due to the presence of a source and a sink. However, advances in live imaging technology and the ability to study cell migration in vivo have revealed that endogenous sources and sinks are typically far more varied and complex. Both sources and sinks can be made up of multiple tissues. During long-range migrations, cells tend to divide up their trajectories and follow different source signals in each segment. When a single source signal is used repeatedly in each segment, its expression is dynamically controlled. Source signals can also originate locally from neighboring migrating cells. Sinks are important in some cases but not all, to sculpt a permissive migratory path or allow cells to move from one intermediate target to another. Migrating cells themselves can function as sinks to create a gradient out of an initially uniform chemoattractant. These diverse ways of building sources and sinks allow different cell types to navigate distinct trajectories through the same embryo even as the whole embryo undergoes the dramatic changes in cell number, position, arrangement and fate that are the essence of development.

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Cell MovementAnimalsCell CommunicationCell PolarityChemotactic FactorsHumansChemotactic Factors

Identifiers

PMID25022255
PMCPMC4177943

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