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ReviewDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2021

Stem cell quiescence: the challenging path to activation.

Noelia Urbán, Tom H Cheung

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Review in Development (Cambridge, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 94 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
94citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
11.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

94 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 144 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Starve-Feed Cycles Direct Quiescence to Proliferation Transitions inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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34 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 at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Noelia UrbánInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Dr. Bohr Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria noelia.urban@imba.oeaw.ac.at tcheung@ust.hk.ORCID 0000-0003-4813-9274
Tom H CheungDivision of Life Science, Center for Stem Cell Research, Center of Systems Biology and Human Health, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, and Molecular Neuroscience Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China noelia.urban@imba.oeaw.ac.at tcheung@ust.hk.ORCID 0000-0003-0796-5406
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · HKInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology · AT

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF W 1261
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quiescence is a cellular state in which a cell remains out of the cell cycle but retains the capacity to divide. The unique ability of adult stem cells to maintain quiescence is crucial for life-long tissue homeostasis and regenerative capacity. Quiescence has long been viewed as an inactive state but recent studies have shown that it is in fact an actively regulated process and that adult stem cells are highly reactive to extrinsic stimuli. This has fuelled hopes of boosting the reactivation potential of adult stem cells to improve tissue function during ageing. In this Review, we provide a perspective of the quiescent state and discuss how quiescent adult stem cells transition into the cell cycle. We also discuss current challenges in the field, highlighting recent technical advances that could help overcome some of these challenges.

Indexed as

Adult Stem CellsCell CycleCell DifferentiationCell DivisionCell ProliferationEpigenomicsHomeostasisHumansStem CellsCell cycleDevelopmental biologyStem cells

Identifiers

PMID33558315
PMCPMC7888710
OpenAlexW3126866898

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