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ReviewStem cell reports2021

Retinoic acid signaling in heart development: Application in the differentiation of cardiovascular lineages from human pluripotent stem cells.

Alexandra Wiesinger, Gerard J J Boink, Vincent M Christoffels, Harsha D Devalla

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Review in Stem cell reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
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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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Human cardiovascular organoids: Biomedical applications and ethical challenges.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2026
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  2. Retinoic acid in health and disease.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  8. The Influences of RARγ on the Behavior of Normal and Cancer Stem Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  15. Retinoic acid signaling and metabolism in heart failure.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025
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  20. The molecular mechanisms of cardiac development and related diseases.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexandra WiesingerDepartment of Medical Biology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Gerard J J BoinkDepartment of Medical Biology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Cardiology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Vincent M ChristoffelsDepartment of Medical Biology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Harsha D DevallaDepartment of Medical Biology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: h.d.devalla@amsterdamumc.nl.
Amsterdam University Medical Centers · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retinoic acid (RA) signaling plays an important role during heart development in establishing anteroposterior polarity, formation of inflow and outflow tract progenitors, and growth of the ventricular compact wall. RA is also utilized as a key ingredient in protocols designed for generating cardiac cell types from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). This review discusses the role of RA in cardiogenesis, currently available protocols that employ RA for differentiation of various cardiovascular lineages, and plausible transcriptional mechanisms underlying this fate specification. These insights will inform further development of desired cardiac cell types from human PSCs and their application in preclinical and clinical research.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell DifferentiationCell LineageGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHeartHumansModels, CardiovascularMyocardiumPluripotent Stem CellsReceptors, Retinoic AcidSignal TransductionSinoatrial NodeT-Box Domain ProteinsTretinoinReceptors, Retinoic AcidT-Box Domain ProteinsT-box transcription factor 5Tretinoin

Identifiers

PMID34653403
PMCPMC8581056
OpenAlexW3206421152

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