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ReviewStem cells (Dayton, Ohio)2021

On the road again: Establishment and maintenance of stemness in the neural crest from embryo to adulthood.

Surangi N Perera, Laura Kerosuo

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Review in Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. A dual role for GLI3 signaling in neural crest development.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Surangi N PereraNeural Crest Development and Disease Unit, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4827-9242
Laura KerosuoNeural Crest Development and Disease Unit, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6710-3512
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Neural Crest Development and DiseaseZIADE000748 · NIDCR · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL & CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH · PI KEROSUO, LAURA · 2018 to 2025
$11.5M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unique to vertebrates, the neural crest (NC) is an embryonic stem cell population that contributes to a greatly expanding list of derivatives ranging from neurons and glia of the peripheral nervous system, facial cartilage and bone, pigment cells of the skin to secretory cells of the endocrine system. Here, we focus on what is specifically known about establishment and maintenance of NC stemness and ultimate fate commitment mechanisms, which could help explain its exceptionally high stem cell potential that exceeds the "rules set during gastrulation." In fact, recent discoveries have shed light on the existence of NC cells that coexpress commonly accepted pluripotency factors like Nanog, Oct4/PouV, and Klf4. The coexpression of pluripotency factors together with the exceptional array of diverse NC derivatives encouraged us to propose a new term "pleistopotent" (Greek for abundant, a substantial amount) to be used to reflect the uniqueness of the NC as compared to other post-gastrulation stem cell populations in the vertebrate body, and to differentiate them from multipotent lineage restricted stem cells. We also discuss studies related to the maintenance of NC stemness within the challenging context of being a transient and thus a constantly changing population of stem cells without a permanent niche. The discovery of the stem cell potential of Schwann cell precursors as well as multiple adult NC-derived stem cell reservoirs during the past decade has greatly increased our understanding of how NC cells contribute to tissues formed after its initial migration stage in young embryos.

Indexed as

Cell DifferentiationEmbryonic DevelopmentAnimalsEmbryo, MammalianEmbryonic Stem CellsNeural Crestneural crestneural crest derivativespleistopotentstem cell maintenancestemness

Identifiers

PMID33017496
PMCPMC7821161
OpenAlexW3091252748

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