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ReviewGenes & development2021

Dietary interventions as regulators of stem cell behavior in homeostasis and disease.

Jesse S S Novak, Sanjeethan C Baksh, Elaine Fuchs

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Review in Genes & development, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Diet-induced chromatin states influence intestinal stem cell memory.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  6. Starve-Feed Cycles Direct Quiescence to Proliferation Transitions inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  8. The Interplay between the Gut and Ketogenic Diets in Health and Disease.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  10. Stem cell-based therapeutic strategies for liver aging.Liver research (Beijing, China) · 2025
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  16. Regulation of adult stem cell function by ketone bodies.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jesse S S NovakHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2117-8302
Sanjeethan C BakshHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1779-771X
Elaine FuchsHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering MST ProgramT32GM007739 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI HSU, KATHARINE C · 1985 to 2023
$51.1M
VITAMIN A AND KERATINIZATION IN HUMAN EPITHELIAL CELLSR01AR031737 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ELAINE FUCHS · 1986 to 2026
$16.6M
Skin Stem Cells: Purification and CharacterizationR01AR050452 · NIAMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI ELAINE FUCHS · 2004 to 2026
$8.6M
GENE EXPRESSION &DIFFERENTIATION IN HUMAN EPIDERMISR01AR027883 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI FUCHS, ELAINE · 1986 to 2022
$7.6M
Dissecting the role of serine metabolism in tumor initiating stem cellsF31CA236465 · NCI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI BAKSH, SANJEETHAN · 2018 to 2021
$193k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS F31 CA236465NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR027883NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR031737NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR050452NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007739
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stem cells maintain tissues by balancing self-renewal with differentiation. A stem cell's local microenvironment, or niche, informs stem cell behavior and receives inputs at multiple levels. Increasingly, it is becoming clear that the overall metabolic status of an organism or metabolites themselves can function as integral members of the niche to alter stem cell fate. Macroscopic dietary interventions such as caloric restriction, the ketogenic diet, and a high-fat diet systemically alter an organism's metabolic state in different ways. Intriguingly, however, they all converge on a propensity to enhance self-renewal. Here, we highlight our current knowledge on how dietary changes feed into stem cell behavior across a wide variety of tissues and illuminate possible explanations for why diverse interventions can result in similar stem cell phenotypes. In so doing, we hope to inspire new avenues of inquiry into the importance of metabolism in stem cell homeostasis and disease.

Indexed as

DietAnimalsDiet, High-FatFastingGlucoseHumansLipid MetabolismStem CellsStress, PhysiologicalGlucosecaloric restrictioncell fatecellular metabolismfastinghigh-fat dietketogenic dietorganismal metabolismself-renewalstem cells

Identifiers

PMID33526586
PMCPMC7849367
OpenAlexW3128363114

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