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ArticleThe Journal of cell biology2014

Osmotic surveillance mediates rapid wound closure through nucleotide release.

William J Gault, Balázs Enyedi, Philipp Niethammer

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Article 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 55 papers.

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55citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 94 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

William J GaultCell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065.
Balázs EnyediCell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065.
Philipp NiethammerCell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065 niethamp@mskcc.org.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Regulation of Wound Detection in Animal TissuesR01GM099970 · NIGMS · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI NIETHAMMER, PHILIPP MICHAEL · 2012 to 2020
$3.2M
Injury-Induced Epithelial Cell Detachment and Cell MigrationF32GM105222 · NIGMS · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI GAULT, WILLIAM · 2013 to 2014
$102k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM105222NIGMS NIH HHS F32GM105222NIGMS NIH HHS GM099970NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM099970
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Osmotic cues from the environment mediate rapid detection of epithelial breaches by leukocytes in larval zebrafish tail fins. Using intravital luminescence and fluorescence microscopy, we now show that osmolarity differences between the interstitial fluid and the external environment trigger ATP release at tail fin wounds to initiate rapid wound closure through long-range activation of basal epithelial cell motility. Extracellular nucleotide breakdown, at least in part mediated by ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 3 (Entpd3), restricts the range and duration of osmotically induced cell migration after injury. Thus, in zebrafish larvae, wound repair is driven by an autoregulatory circuit that generates pro-migratory tissue signals as a function of environmental exposure of the inside of the tissue.

Indexed as

OsmoregulationWound HealingAdenosine TriphosphateAnimalsCell MovementEpidermisEpithelial CellsExtracellular FluidHydrolysisLarvaZebrafishAdenosine Triphosphate

Identifiers

PMID25533845
PMCPMC4274268
OpenAlexW2133210319

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