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ArticleScientific data2021

Characterization of hormone-producing cell types in the teleost pituitary gland using single-cell RNA-seq.

Khadeeja Siddique, Eirill Ager-Wick, Romain Fontaine, Finn-Arne Weltzien, Christiaan V Henkel

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Article in Scientific data, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Khadeeja SiddiquePhysiology Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
Eirill Ager-WickPhysiology Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
Romain FontainePhysiology Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-1123-9773
Finn-Arne WeltzienPhysiology Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway. finn-arne.weltzien@nmbu.no.ORCID 0000-0002-5111-1558
Christiaan V HenkelPhysiology Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway. christiaan.henkel@nmbu.no.ORCID 0000-0001-9838-8215
Norwegian University of Life Sciences · NO

Funding

Norges Forskningsråd (Research Council of Norway) 248828Norges Forskningsråd (Research Council of Norway) 251307Norges Forskningsråd (Research Council of Norway) 255601
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pituitary is the vertebrate endocrine gland responsible for the production and secretion of several essential peptide hormones. These, in turn, control many aspects of an animal's physiology and development, including growth, reproduction, homeostasis, metabolism, and stress responses. In teleost fish, each hormone is presumably produced by a specific cell type. However, key details on the regulation of, and communication between these cell types remain to be resolved. We have therefore used single-cell sequencing to generate gene expression profiles for 2592 and 3804 individual cells from the pituitaries of female and male adult medaka (Oryzias latipes), respectively. Based on expression profile clustering, we define 15 and 16 distinct cell types in the female and male pituitary, respectively, of which ten are involved in the production of a single peptide hormone. Collectively, our data provide a high-quality reference for studies on pituitary biology and the regulation of hormone production, both in fish and in vertebrates in general.

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OryziasRNA-SeqSingle-Cell AnalysisAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedFemaleHormonesMalePituitary GlandTranscriptomeHormones

Identifiers

PMID34711832
PMCPMC8553774
OpenAlexW3210474431

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