Development, wiring and function of dopamine neuron subtypes

O Garritsen, EY van Battum, LM Grossouw… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The midbrain dopamine (mDA) system is composed of molecularly and functionally distinct
neuron subtypes that mediate specific behaviours and are linked to various brain diseases …

Molecular events in neuroendocrine prostate cancer development

Y Wang, Y Wang, X Ci, SYC Choi, F Crea, D Lin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is a lethal subtype of prostate cancer. NEPC arises
de novo only rarely; the disease predominantly develops from adenocarcinoma in response …

Diversification of molecularly defined myenteric neuron classes revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

K Morarach, A Mikhailova, V Knoflach, F Memic… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Autonomous regulation of the intestine requires the combined activity of functionally distinct
neurons of the enteric nervous system (ENS). However, the variety of enteric neuron types …

[HTML][HTML] Super-enhancers in the control of cell identity and disease

D Hnisz, BJ Abraham, TI Lee, A Lau, V Saint-André… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Super-enhancers are large clusters of transcriptional enhancers that drive expression of
genes that define cell identity. Improved understanding of the roles that super-enhancers …

Interneuron types as attractors and controllers

G Fishell, A Kepecs - Annual review of neuroscience, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Cortical interneurons display striking differences in shape, physiology, and other attributes,
challenging us to appropriately classify them. We previously suggested that interneuron …

In Vitro Generation of Neuromesodermal Progenitors Reveals Distinct Roles for Wnt Signalling in the Specification of Spinal Cord and Paraxial Mesoderm Identity

M Gouti, A Tsakiridis, FJ Wymeersch, Y Huang… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Cells of the spinal cord and somites arise from shared, dual-fated precursors, located
towards the posterior of the elongating embryo. Here we show that these neuromesodermal …

Direct reprogramming of mouse and human fibroblasts into multipotent neural stem cells with a single factor

KL Ring, LM Tong, ME Balestra, R Javier… - Cell stem cell, 2012 - cell.com
The generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and induced neuronal cells (iNCs)
from somatic cells provides new avenues for basic research and potential transplantation …

Induced pluripotent stem cells—opportunities for disease modelling and drug discovery

M Grskovic, A Javaherian, B Strulovici… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2011 - nature.com
The ability to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from patients, and an
increasingly refined capacity to differentiate these iPSCs into disease-relevant cell types …

Maintaining differentiated cellular identity

J Holmberg, T Perlmann - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Various studies have demonstrated that somatic differentiated cells can be reprogrammed
into other differentiated states or into pluripotency, thus showing that the differentiated …

Sox6 and Otx2 control the specification of substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons

L Panman, M Papathanou, A Laguna, T Oosterveen… - Cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
Distinct midbrain dopamine (mDA) neuron subtypes are found in the substantia nigra pars
compacta (SNc) and the ventral tegmental area (VTA), but it is mainly SNc neurons that …