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ShapeMetrics: A 3D Cell Segmentation Pipeline for Single-Cell Spatial Morphometric Analysis
There is a growing need for single-cell level data analysis in correlation with the advancements of microscopy techniques. Morphology-based statistics gathered from individual cells are essential for detection...
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Open AccessImmunoglobulin superfamily member 3 is required for the vagal neural crest cell migration and enteric neuronal network organization
The immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily members are involved in cell adhesion and migration, complex multistep processes that play critical roles in embryogenesis, wound healing, tissue formation, and many other p...
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Open AccessMaintenance of pluripotency-like signature in the entire ectoderm leads to neural crest stem cell potential
The ability of the pluripotent epiblast to contribute progeny to all three germ layers is thought to be lost after gastrulation. The later-forming neural crest (NC) rises from ectoderm and it remains poorly un...
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Open AccessA ubiquitin-based effector-to-inhibitor switch coordinates early brain, craniofacial, and skin development
The molecular mechanisms that coordinate patterning of the embryonic ectoderm into spatially distinct lineages to form the nervous system, epidermis, and neural crest-derived craniofacial structures are unclea...
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Open AccessNovel roles of phentolamine in protecting axon myelination, muscle atrophy, and functional recovery following nerve injury
Incomplete functional recovery after peripheral nerve injury (PNI) often results in devastating physical disabilities in human patients. Despite improved progress in surgical and non-surgical approaches, achie...
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Open AccessNeural crest stem cells from human epidermis of aged donors maintain their multipotency in vitro and in vivo
Neural crest (NC) cells are multipotent stem cells that arise from the embryonic ectoderm, delaminate from the neural tube in early vertebrate development and migrate throughout the develo** embryo, where th...
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In Vitro Maintenance of Multipotent Neural Crest Stem Cells as Crestospheres
Neural crest cells are a critical source of many cell types of the vertebrate body. However, as a stem cell population they are peculiar because of the transient nature of their stem cell niche; soon after the...
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Spatial Genomic Analysis: A Multiplexed Transcriptional Profiling Method that Reveals Subpopulations of Cells Within Intact Tissues
Here, we present Spatial Genomic Analysis (SGA), a quantitative single-cell transcriptional profiling method that takes advantage of single-molecule imaging of individual transcripts for up to a hundred genes....
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Open AccessIdentification of a neural crest stem cell niche by Spatial Genomic Analysis
The neural crest is an embryonic population of multipotent stem cells that form numerous defining features of vertebrates. Due to lack of reliable techniques to perform transcriptional profiling in intact tiss...
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A2B5+/GFAP+ Cells of Rat Spinal Cord Share a Similar Lipid Profile with Progenitor Cells: A Comparative Lipidomic Study
The central nervous system (CNS) harbors multiple glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) expressing cell types. In addition to the most abundant cell type of the CNS, the astrocytes, various stem cells and pr...
