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ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2021

A Comparative Analysis of Gene and Protein Expression Throughout a Full 28-Day Retinal Regeneration Time-Course in Adult Zebrafish.

Ashley C Kramer, Katherine Gurdziel, Ryan Thummel

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Article in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Models of Photoreceptor Degeneration in Adult Zebrafish.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  6. New pathways to neurogenesis: Insights from injury-induced retinal regeneration.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2024
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  10. mTORC1 signaling pathway regulates tooth repair.International journal of oral science · 2023
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  12. Comparative analysis of transcriptional changes in zebrafishFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2023
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  13. The regeneration-responsive elementFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ashley C KramerDepartment of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States.
Katherine GurdzielGenome Sciences Core, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States.
Ryan ThummelDepartment of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States.
Wayne State University · US

Funding

VISION RESEARCH--COREP30EY004068 · NEI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI LINDA D HAZLETT · 1985 to 2026
$13.2M
Vision defects associated with loss of C-Vps functionR01EY026551 · NEI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI THUMMEL, RYAN · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
Comparative Analysis of Retinal Glial Support ProgramsR21EY031526 · NEI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI COOK, TIFFANY, THUMMEL, RYAN · 2020 to 2021
$416k
Elucidating the role of DNA methyltransferases in epigenetic regulation of retinal regeneration in zebrafishF30EY031142 · NEI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KRAMER, ASHLEY · 2020 to 2024
$239k
NEI NIH HHS F30 EY031142NEI NIH HHS P30 EY004068NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026551NEI NIH HHS R21 EY031526
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Following photoreceptors ablation by intense light exposure, adult zebrafish are capable of complete regeneration due to the ability of their Müller glia (MG) to re-enter the cell cycle, creating progenitors that differentiate into new photoreceptors. The majority of previous reports on retinal regeneration focused on the first few days of the regenerative response, which include MG cell-cycle re-entry and progenitor cell proliferation. With this study, we analyzed the full 28-day time-course of regeneration by pairing a detailed morphological/immunological analysis with RNA-seq transcriptional profiling at 8 key time points during retinal regeneration. We observed several novel findings. First, we provide evidence for two separate peaks of MG gliosis, with the secondary gliotic peak occurring after MG cell-cycle re-entry. Second, we highlight a distinct transcriptional shift between 5- and 10-days post lesion that highlights the transition from progenitor proliferation to differentiation into new photoreceptors. Third, we show distinctly different patterns of transcriptional recovery of the photoreceptor opsins at 28 days post lesion. Finally, using differential gene expression analysis, we revealed that the established functional recovery of the retina at 28 days post lesion does not, in fact, return to an undamaged transcriptional state, potentially redefining what the field considers complete regeneration. Together, to our knowledge, this work represents the first histological and transcriptomic map of a 28-day time-course of retinal regeneration in adult zebrafish.

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3′RNA-seqgliosisMüller gliaregenerationretinastem cell

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