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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2023

Essential Role of BMP4 Signaling in the Avian Ceca in Colorectal Enteric Nervous System Development.

Tamás Kovács, Viktória Halasy, Csongor Pethő, Emőke Szőcs, Ádám Soós, Dávid Dóra, Pascal de Santa Barbara, Sandrine Faure, Rhian Stavely, Allan M Goldstein and 1 more

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. BMP signaling pathway member expression is enriched in enteric neural progenitors and required for zebrafish enteric nervous system development.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Tamás KovácsDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0003-4127-4545
Viktória HalasyDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary.
Csongor PethőDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary.
Emőke SzőcsDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary.
Ádám SoósDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary.
Dávid DóraDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary.
Pascal de Santa BarbaraPhyMedExp, University of Montpellier, INSERM, CNRS, 34295 Montpellier, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9040-2481
Sandrine FaurePhyMedExp, University of Montpellier, INSERM, CNRS, 34295 Montpellier, France.
Rhian StavelyPediatric Surgery Research Laboratories, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5099-3704
Allan M GoldsteinPediatric Surgery Research Laboratories, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Nándor NagyDepartment of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-6223-5214
Semmelweis University · HUCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRHarvard University · US

Funding

Developmentally Informed Approach to Cell-based Therapy for Enteric NeuropathiesR01DK103785 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI GOLDSTEIN, ALLAN M · 2015 to 2019
$1.9M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK103785
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The enteric nervous system (ENS) is principally derived from vagal neural crest cells that migrate caudally along the entire length of the gastrointestinal tract, giving rise to neurons and glial cells in two ganglionated plexuses. Incomplete migration of enteric neural crest-derived cells (ENCDC) leads to Hirschsprung disease, a congenital disorder characterized by the absence of enteric ganglia along variable lengths of the colorectum. Our previous work strongly supported the essential role of the avian ceca, present at the junction of the midgut and hindgut, in hindgut ENS development, since ablation of the cecal buds led to incomplete ENCDC colonization of the hindgut. In situ hybridization shows bone morphogenetic protein-4 (BMP4) is highly expressed in the cecal mesenchyme, leading us to hypothesize that cecal BMP4 is required for hindgut ENS development. To test this, we modulated BMP4 activity using embryonic intestinal organ culture techniques and retroviral infection. We show that overexpression or inhibition of BMP4 in the ceca disrupts hindgut ENS development, with GDNF playing an important regulatory role. Our results suggest that these two important signaling pathways are required for normal ENCDC migration and enteric ganglion formation in the developing hindgut ENS.

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Colorectal NeoplasmsEnteric Nervous SystemBone Morphogenetic Protein 4Cell DifferentiationCell MovementHumansNeural CrestSignal TransductionBMP4 protein, humanBone Morphogenetic Protein 4BMP4cecaenteric nervous systemGDNFhindgutHirschsprung diseaseneural crestNoggin

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PMID37958648
PMCPMC10650322
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