Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34995481›Full record

ReviewCell2022

Cell maturation: Hallmarks, triggers, and manipulation.

Juan R Alvarez-Dominguez, Douglas A Melton

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Review in Cell, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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50citing papers in PubMed
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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

50 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Machine Learning in Stem Cell Research: From Biological Data to Clinical Translation.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026
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  11. Direct in vivo reprogramming to relieve tissue ischemia via induced vasculogenesis.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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  14. Complement C3 Activation in the Human Retinal Pigment Epithelium.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Juan R Alvarez-DominguezDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: juan.alvarez@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Douglas A MeltonDepartment of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: dmelton@harvard.edu.

Funding

Renewal of the Human Islet Research Enhancement Center (HIREC) for the Type-1-Diabetes-Focused Human Islet Research Network (HIRN).U24DK104162 · NIDDK · BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE · PI John S. Kaddis, Joyce Carol Niland · 2019 to 2026
$12.3M
Human Islet Research Network (HIRN) Coordinating CenterU01DK104162 · NIDDK · BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE · PI NILAND, JOYCE CAROL · 2014 to 2018
$6.1M
Circadian Control of Pancreatic Beta-cell Maturation by Dec1K01DK129442 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ALVAREZ, JUAN R · 2021 to 2023
$580k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIDDK NIH HHS K01 DK129442NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK104162NIDDK NIH HHS U24 DK104162
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How cells become specialized, or "mature," is important for cell and developmental biology. While maturity is usually deemed a terminal fate, it may be more helpful to consider maturation not as a switch but as a dynamic continuum of adaptive phenotypic states set by genetic and environment programing. The hallmarks of maturity comprise changes in anatomy (form, gene circuitry, and interconnectivity) and physiology (function, rhythms, and proliferation) that confer adaptive behavior. We discuss efforts to harness their chemical (nutrients, oxygen, and growth factors) and physical (mechanical, spatial, and electrical) triggers in vitro and in vivo and how maturation strategies may support disease research and regenerative medicine.

Indexed as

Cell DifferentiationAnimalsBiomedical ResearchCell ProliferationHumansModels, Biologicalbiomaterialscell maturitycircadian rhythmsdirected stem cell differentiationenergy metabolismmachine–tissue interfacesmicrofluidic chipsnanotechnologyorganoidstissue anatomy and physiology

Identifiers

PMID34995481
PMCPMC8792364

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