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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Pulmonary alveolar type I cell population consists of two distinct subtypes that differ in cell fate.

Yanjie Wang, Zan Tang, Huanwei Huang, Jiao Li, Zheng Wang, Yuanyuan Yu, Chengwei Zhang, Juan Li, Huaping Dai, Fengchao Wang and 2 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 135 papers.

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135 citing papers in PubMed, 256 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Yanjie WangCollege of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China.
Zan TangNational Institute of Biological Sciences, 102206 Beijing, China.
Huanwei HuangNational Institute of Biological Sciences, 102206 Beijing, China.
Jiao LiNational Institute of Biological Sciences, 102206 Beijing, China.
Zheng WangNational Institute of Biological Sciences, 102206 Beijing, China.
Yuanyuan YuCollege of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China.
Chengwei ZhangBeijing Armed Police General Hospital, 100039, China.
Juan LiNational Institute of Biological Sciences, 102206 Beijing, China.
Huaping DaiChina-Japan Friendship Hospital, 100029, China.
Fengchao WangNational Institute of Biological Sciences, 102206 Beijing, China.
Tao CaiNational Institute of Biological Sciences, 102206 Beijing, China; caitao@nibs.ac.cn tangnan@nibs.ac.cn.
Nan TangNational Institute of Biological Sciences, 102206 Beijing, China; caitao@nibs.ac.cn tangnan@nibs.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-8284-3372
National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing · CNChina-Japan Friendship Hospital · CNChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNChinese People's Armed Police General Hospital · CNPeking University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pulmonary alveolar type I (AT1) cells cover more than 95% of alveolar surface and are essential for the air-blood barrier function of lungs. AT1 cells have been shown to retain developmental plasticity during alveolar regeneration. However, the development and heterogeneity of AT1 cells remain largely unknown. Here, we conducted a single-cell RNA-seq analysis to characterize postnatal AT1 cell development and identified insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 2 (Igfbp2) as a genetic marker specifically expressed in postnatal AT1 cells. The portion of AT1 cells expressing Igfbp2 increases during alveologenesis and in post pneumonectomy (PNX) newly formed alveoli. We found that the adult AT1 cell population contains both Hopx

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Alveolar Epithelial CellsSingle-Cell AnalysisAnimalsCell DifferentiationCell LineageInsulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 2MiceMice, TransgenicPulmonary AlveoliRegenerationRNASequence Analysis, RNATranscriptomeInsulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 2RNAalveolar development and regenerationIgfbp2lineage tracingpulmonary alveolar type I cellssingle cell RNA-seq

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PMID29463737
PMCPMC5877944
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