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Chemokine Signaling during Midline Epithelial Seam Disintegration Facilitates Palatal Fusion

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, October 2017
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Title
Chemokine Signaling during Midline Epithelial Seam Disintegration Facilitates Palatal Fusion
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Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, October 2017
DOI 10.3389/fcell.2017.00094
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Authors

Christiaan M. Suttorp, Niels A. Cremers, René van Rheden, Raymond F. Regan, Pia Helmich, Sven van Kempen, Anne M. Kuijpers-Jagtman, Frank A.D.T.G. Wagener

Abstract

Disintegration of the midline epithelial seam (MES) is crucial for palatal fusion, and failure results in cleft palate. Palatal fusion and wound repair share many common signaling pathways related to epithelial-mesenchymal cross-talk. We postulate that chemokine CXCL11, its receptor CXCR3, and the cytoprotective enzyme heme oxygenase (HO), which are crucial during wound repair, also play a decisive role in MES disintegration. Fetal growth restriction and craniofacial abnormalities were present in HO-2 knockout (KO) mice without effects on palatal fusion. CXCL11 and CXCR3 were highly expressed in the disintegrating MES in both wild-type and HO-2 KO animals. Multiple apoptotic DNA fragments were present within the disintegrating MES and phagocytized by recruited CXCR3-positive wt and HO-2 KO macrophages. Macrophages located near the MES were HO-1-positive, and more HO-1-positive cells were present in HO-2 KO mice compared to wild-type. This study of embryonic and palatal development provided evidence that supports the hypothesis that the MES itself plays a prominent role in palatal fusion by orchestrating epithelial apoptosis and macrophage recruitment via CXCL11-CXCR3 signaling.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 10%
Student > Bachelor 2 10%
Professor 2 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 5%
Other 3 15%
Unknown 7 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 30%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 5%
Neuroscience 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 7 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 October 2017.
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#14,367,260
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Outputs from Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
#2,866
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#182,392
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#14
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