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Tympanic border cells are Wnt-responsive and can act as progenitors for postnatal mouse cochlear cells

Overview of attention for article published in Development (09501991), March 2013
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Title
Tympanic border cells are Wnt-responsive and can act as progenitors for postnatal mouse cochlear cells
Published in
Development (09501991), March 2013
DOI 10.1242/dev.087528
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Authors

Taha Adnan Jan, Renjie Chai, Zahra Nabi Sayyid, Renée van Amerongen, Anping Xia, Tian Wang, Saku Tapani Sinkkonen, Yi Arial Zeng, Jared Ruben Levin, Stefan Heller, Roel Nusse, Alan Gi-Lun Cheng

Abstract

Permanent hearing loss is caused by the irreversible damage of cochlear sensory hair cells and nonsensory supporting cells. In the postnatal cochlea, the sensory epithelium is terminally differentiated, whereas tympanic border cells (TBCs) beneath the sensory epithelium are proliferative. The functions of TBCs are poorly characterized. Using an Axin2(lacZ) Wnt reporter mouse, we found transient but robust Wnt signaling and proliferation in TBCs during the first 3 postnatal weeks, when the number of TBCs decreases. In vivo lineage tracing shows that a subset of hair cells and supporting cells is derived postnatally from Axin2-expressing TBCs. In cochlear explants, Wnt agonists stimulated the proliferation of TBCs, whereas Wnt inhibitors suppressed it. In addition, purified Axin2(lacZ) cells were clonogenic and self-renewing in culture in a Wnt-dependent manner, and were able to differentiate into hair cell-like and supporting cell-like cells. Taken together, our data indicate that Axin2-positive TBCs are Wnt responsive and can act as precursors to sensory epithelial cells in the postnatal cochlea.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 5%
Portugal 1 1%
Hungary 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Netherlands 1 1%
Unknown 71 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 24%
Researcher 16 20%
Other 7 9%
Student > Bachelor 7 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 9%
Other 16 20%
Unknown 7 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 24 30%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 10%
Neuroscience 8 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 4%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 10 13%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. 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 15 September 2018.
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#1,353,929
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Outputs from Development (09501991)
#521
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#10,920
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Outputs of similar age from Development (09501991)
#3
of 110 outputs
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