Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31919222›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2020

Programmed cell death along the midline axis patterns ipsilaterality in gastrulation.

Lisandro Maya-Ramos, Takashi Mikawa

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Differential sensitivity of midline development to mitosis during and after primitive streak extension.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2026
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  4. Bilateral cellular flows display asymmetry prior to left-right organizer formation in amniote gastrulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Avians as a Model System of Vascular Development.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lisandro Maya-RamosCardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4424-7537
Takashi MikawaCardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. takashi.mikawa@ucsf.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1051-8260
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007618 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ANDERSON, MARK S · 1985 to 2020
$29.6M
Coronary Vascular Cell DevelopmentR37HL078921 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MIKAWA, TAKASHI · 2010 to 2019
$3.8M
Development of Vascular Smooth Muscle Stem Cell NicheR01HL148125 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MIKAWA, TAKASHI · 2019 to 2022
$1.6M
Atrioventricular Junction DevelopmentR01HL132832 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MIKAWA, TAKASHI · 2016 to 2019
$1.6M
Heart Field DevelopmentR01HL122375 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MIKAWA, TAKASHI · 2014 to 2017
$1.6M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL122375NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL132832NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL148125NHLBI NIH HHS R37 HL078921NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007618
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bilateral symmetry is the predominant body plan in the animal kingdom. Cells on the left and right sides remain compartmentalized on their ipsilateral side throughout life, but with occasional variation, as evidenced by gynandromorphs and human disorders. How this evolutionarily conserved body plan is programmed remains a fundamental yet unanswered question. Here, we show that germ-layer patterning in avian gastrulation is ipsilateral despite cells undergoing highly invasive mesenchymal transformation and cell migration. Contralateral invasion is suppressed by extracellular matrix (ECM) and programmed cell death (PCD) along the embryonic midline. Ipsilateral gastrulation was lost by midline ECM and PCD inhibition but restored with exogenously induced PCD. Our data support ipsilaterality as an integral component of bilaterality and highlight a positive functional role of PCD in development.

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ApoptosisGastrulationAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedCell MovementChick EmbryoEpithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionExtracellular MatrixGreen Fluorescent ProteinsGreen Fluorescent Proteins

Identifiers

PMID31919222
PMCPMC7017582
OpenAlexW2999345439

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