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ReviewThe Journal of cell biology2014

Getting to know your neighbor: cell polarization in early embryos.

Jeremy Nance

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Review in The Journal of cell biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Functional Characterization and Heterogeneity Analysis of Ribosomal Proteins in Mouse Preimplantation Embryos.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  7. Origin and development of primary animal epithelia.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2024
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  15. Polarity Establishment and Maintenance in Ascidian Notochord.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020
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  17. Tight Junctions in Cell Proliferation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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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.

Jeremy NanceHelen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine, the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, and Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016 Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine, the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, and Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016 Jeremy.Nance@med.nyu.edu.
New York University · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Contact-Mediated Cell Polarization in the C. elegans Embryo.R01GM078341 · NIGMS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI NANCE, JEREMY · 2007 to 2015
$3.1M
In vivo mechanisms of epithelial cell polarization and junction formationR01GM098492 · NIGMS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI NANCE, JEREMY · 2011 to 2014
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM078341NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM078341NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM098492NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM098492
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polarization of early embryos along cell contact patterns--referred to in this paper as radial polarization--provides a foundation for the initial cell fate decisions and morphogenetic movements of embryogenesis. Although polarity can be established through distinct upstream mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans, Xenopus laevis, and mouse embryos, in each species, it results in the restriction of PAR polarity proteins to contact-free surfaces of blastomeres. In turn, PAR proteins influence cell fates by affecting signaling pathways, such as Hippo and Wnt, and regulate morphogenetic movements by directing cytoskeletal asymmetries.

Indexed as

Cell PolarityAnimalsBlastomeresCell AdhesionCell CommunicationEmbryo, MammalianEpithelial CellsHumansSignal Transduction

Identifiers

PMID25267293
PMCPMC4178963
OpenAlexW2116159074

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