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ArticleeLife2023

Single-cell profiling coupled with lineage analysis reveals vagal and sacral neural crest contributions to the developing enteric nervous system.

Jessica Jacobs-Li, Weiyi Tang, Can Li, Marianne E Bronner

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Article in eLife, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Time-resolved morphological and transcriptomic characterization of early enteric neuron subtype emergence in chick.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Whole-Gut Spatial Genomic Analysis Reveals Molecular Regionalization of the Differentiating Zebrafish Enteric Nervous System.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jessica Jacobs-Li *Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1339-3555
Weiyi Tang *Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1279-1001
Can LiDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States.
Marianne E BronnerDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4274-1862
California Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Contribution of the sacral neural crest to the peripheral nervous system of the post-umbilical gastrointestinal tractR01DK133480 · NIDDK · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Marianne Bronner · 2023 to 2026
$2.2M
Lineage and transcriptional analysis of sacral neural crest contribution to the enteric nervous systemF31HD111287 · NICHD · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI JACOBS-LI, JESSICA · 2023 to 2025
$146k
NICHD NIH HHS F31 HD111287NIDDK NIH HHS R01DK13348NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK133480
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During development, much of the enteric nervous system (ENS) arises from the vagal neural crest that emerges from the caudal hindbrain and colonizes the entire gastrointestinal tract. However, a second ENS contribution comes from the sacral neural crest that arises in the caudal neural tube and populates the post-umbilical gut. By coupling single-cell transcriptomics with axial-level-specific lineage tracing in avian embryos, we compared the contributions of embryonic vagal and sacral neural crest cells to the chick ENS and the associated peripheral ganglia (Nerve of Remak and pelvic plexuses). At embryonic day (E) 10, the two neural crest populations form overlapping subsets of neuronal and glia cell types. Surprisingly, the post-umbilical vagal neural crest much more closely resembles the sacral neural crest than the pre-umbilical vagal neural crest. However, some differences in cluster types were noted between vagal and sacral derived cells. Notably, RNA trajectory analysis suggests that the vagal neural crest maintains a neuronal/glial progenitor pool, whereas this cluster is depleted in the E10 sacral neural crest which instead has numerous enteric glia. The present findings reveal sacral neural crest contributions to the hindgut and associated peripheral ganglia and highlight the potential influence of the local environment and/or developmental timing in differentiation of neural crest-derived cells in the developing ENS.

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Enteric Nervous SystemNeural CrestCell MovementGastrointestinal TractNeurogliaNeuronschickendevelopmental biologyenteric nervous systemneural crestneuronsingle-cell RNA-seq

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PMID37877560
PMCPMC10627514
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