Lutheran is a novel marker for classification of bile duct remodeling in distinct liver injury, and an interesting functional molecule for investigating the nature of liver stem/progenitor cells during regeneration.
Kerim B Kaylan, Ian C Berg ... Gregory H Underhill
Mechanical stress plays a cooperative role with Notch in biliary differentiation of liver progenitors, supporting a model of liver development in which biomechanical cues are key inducers of cell fate.
Pankaj Sahai-Hernandez, Claire Pouget ... David Traver
A rare population of endothelial cells emerges from a bipotent muscle progenitor population in the paraxial mesoderm and provides niche support to induce hematopoietic stem cells.
Alexander Mathis, Martin B Stemmler, Andreas VM Herz
Mathematical analysis confirms that hexagonal patterns of neuronal activity are the most efficient means for the brain to represent 2D space, and predicts that activity patterns resembling densely packed lattices are optimal for representing 3D space.
George R Wendt, Julie NR Collins ... James J Collins III
The specification of tegumental progenitor cells in Schistosoma mansoni relies on a pair of flatworm-specific transcription factors that are related to genes regulating epidermal specification in free-living flatworms.