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ArticleNature communications2021

Co-development of central and peripheral neurons with trunk mesendoderm in human elongating multi-lineage organized gastruloids.

Zachary T Olmsted, Janet L Paluh

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49citing papers in PubMed
13.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Zachary T OlmstedState University of New York Polytechnic Institute, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Nanobioscience Constellation, Albany, NY, USA.
Janet L PaluhState University of New York Polytechnic Institute, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Nanobioscience Constellation, Albany, NY, USA. jpaluh@sunypoly.edu.
SUNY Polytechnic Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stem cell technologies including self-assembling 3D tissue models provide access to early human neurodevelopment and fundamental insights into neuropathologies. Gastruloid models have not been used to investigate co-developing central and peripheral neuronal systems with trunk mesendoderm which we achieve here in elongating multi-lineage organized (EMLO) gastruloids. We evaluate EMLOs over a forty-day period, applying immunofluorescence of multi-lineage and functional biomarkers, including day 16 single-cell RNA-Seq, and evaluation of ectodermal and non-ectodermal neural crest cells (NCCs). We identify NCCs that differentiate to form peripheral neurons integrated with an upstream spinal cord region after day 8. This follows initial EMLO polarization events that coordinate with endoderm differentiation and primitive gut tube formation during multicellular spatial reorganization. This combined human central-peripheral nervous system model of early organogenesis highlights developmental events of mesendoderm and neuromuscular trunk regions and enables systemic studies of tissue interactions and innervation of neuromuscular, enteric and cardiac relevance.

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BiomarkersCell DifferentiationCentral Nervous SystemForkhead Transcription FactorsGene ExpressionHumansMorphogenesisNeural CrestPeripheral Nervous SystemPhenotypeSOXE Transcription FactorsTranscription Factor AP-2BiomarkersForkhead Transcription FactorsFOXD3 protein, humanSOX10 protein, humanSOXE Transcription FactorsTFAP2A protein, humanTranscription Factor AP-2

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PMID34021144
PMCPMC8140076
OpenAlexW3162731522

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