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ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2018

Enteric nervous system development: what could possibly go wrong?

Meenakshi Rao, Michael D Gershon

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Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 113 papers.

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113citing papers in PubMed
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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

113 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Time-resolved morphological and transcriptomic characterization of early enteric neuron subtype emergence in chick.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Epigenetic constraints and enhancer innovation link neuronal plasticity to evolutionary adaptation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  8. The Gut in Early Life-Postnatal Challenges.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  16. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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53 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Meenakshi RaoDepartment of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Michael D GershonDepartment of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. mdg4@cumc.columbia.edu.

Funding

MICROENVIRONMENT IN ENTERIC NEURON DEVELOPMENTR01NS015547 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI GERSHON, MICHAEL D, MARGOLIS, KARA GROSS · 1985 to 2022
$7.2M
VZV in the enteric nervous system: pathogenesis and consequencesR01DK093094 · NIDDK · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MICHAEL D GERSHON, Anne A. Gershon · 2011 to 2026
$5.9M
MODELING ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND HIRSCHSPRUNG'S DISASE IN HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLSR01NS099270 · NINDS · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI STUDER, LORENZ P. · 2016 to 2020
$2.9M
Enteric Glia, Sexual Dimorphism and GI MotilityK08DK110532 · NIDDK · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI RAO, MEENAKSHI · 2016 to 2021
$862k
The role of glial cells in the enteric nervous systemF32DK098903 · NIDDK · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI RAO, MEENAKSHI · 2013 to 2014
$119k
NIDDK NIH HHS F32 DK098903NIDDK NIH HHS K08 DK110532NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK093094NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS015547NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS099270
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The gastrointestinal tract contains its own set of intrinsic neuroglial circuits - the enteric nervous system (ENS) - which detects and responds to diverse signals from the environment. Here, we address recent advances in the understanding of ENS development, including how neural-crest-derived progenitors migrate into and colonize the bowel, the formation of ganglionated plexuses and the molecular mechanisms of enteric neuronal and glial diversification. Modern lineage tracing and transcription-profiling technologies have produced observations that simultaneously challenge and affirm long-held beliefs about ENS development. We review many genetic and environmental factors that can alter ENS development and exert long-lasting effects on gastrointestinal function, and discuss how developmental defects in the ENS might account for some of the large burden of digestive disease.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell DifferentiationEnteric Nervous SystemGastrointestinal TractHumansNeural CrestNeurogenesisNeurons

Identifiers

PMID30046054
PMCPMC6261281

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