ReviewCell stress2020
Fine intercellular connections in development: TNTs, cytonemes, or intercellular bridges?
Review in Cell stress, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.
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60 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The formation and function of intercellular bridges in male germlines.Communications biology · 2026Review
- Making a portal for podocyte-parietal cell communication in glomerular injury.American journal of physiology. Renal physiology · 2026Article
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- Membrane Trafficking in Psychiatric Disorders: Bridging Cellular Dysfunction and Mental Health-A Narrative Review.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Review
- Beyond synapses: cytoplasmic connections in brain function and evolution.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Protrusion-Derived Extracellular Vesicles (PD-EVs) and Their Diverse Origins: Key Players in Cellular Communication, Cancer Progression, and T Cell Modulation.Biology of the cell · 2025Review
- Zika virus NS1 drives tunneling nanotube formation for mitochondrial transfer and stealth transmission in trophoblasts.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2025Review
- Cellular component transfer between photoreceptor cells of the retina.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2025Review
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- Distribution and morphologic characterization of telocytes in rat ovary and uterus: insights from ultrastructural and immunohistochemical analysis.Histochemistry and cell biology · 2024Article
- Neodymium-Facilitated Visualization of Extreme Phosphate Accumulation in Fibroblast Filopodia: Implications for Intercellular and Cell-Matrix Interactions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Mechanical properties of intercellular tunneling nanotubes formed by different mechanisms.Heliyon · 2024Review
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Abstract
Intercellular communication is a fundamental property of multicellular organisms, necessary for their adequate responses to changing environment. Tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) represent a novel means of intercellular communication being a long cell-to-cell conduit. TNTs are actively formed under a broad range of stresses and are also proposed to exist under physiological conditions. Development is a physiological condition of particular interest, as it requires fine coordination. Here we discuss whether protrusions shown to exist during embryonic development of different species could be TNTs or if they represent other types of cell structure, like cytonemes or intercellular bridges, that are suggested to play an important role in development.
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