ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2018
TGF-β Family Signaling in Epithelial Differentiation and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition.
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77 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 119 citations in OpenAlex.
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- SMAD7 regulates the canonical Wnt signaling through TGF-β cascade crosstalk and SMAD7/β-CATENIN transcription factor complex formation during tooth regeneration.International journal of oral science · 2026Article
- RNA stability: a novel perspective on gene regulatory networks in bovine mastitis.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Biomolecule-functionalized dental implant surfaces: Towards augmenting soft tissue integration.Bioactive materials · 2025Review
- Role of the TGF‑β/Smad signaling pathway in the transition from acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2025Review
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- Transcriptome Sequencing and Mass Spectrometry Reveal Genes Involved in the Non-mendelian Inheritance-Mediated Feather Growth Rate in Chicken.Biochemical genetics · 2024Article
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- Macrophages and Gut Barrier Function: Guardians of Gastrointestinal Health in Post-Inflammatory and Post-Infection Responses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Metabolic states influence chicken retinal pigment epithelium cell fate decisions.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Curcumin Promotes Diabetic Foot Ulcer Wound Healing by Inhibiting miR-152-3p and Activating the FBN1/TGF-β Pathway.Molecular biotechnology · 2024Article
- Heterozygous MAP3K20 variants cause ectodermal dysplasia, craniosynostosis, sensorineural hearing loss, and limb anomalies.Human genetics · 2024Article
- The Reign of Follistatin in Tumors and Their Microenvironment: Implications for Drug Resistance.Biology · 2024Review
- Epigenetic priming targets tumor heterogeneity to shift transcriptomic phenotype of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma towards a Vitamin D susceptible state.Cell death & disease · 2024Article
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Abstract
Epithelia exist in the animal body since the onset of embryonic development; they generate tissue barriers and specify organs and glands. Through epithelial-mesenchymal transitions (EMTs), epithelia generate mesenchymal cells that form new tissues and promote healing or disease manifestation when epithelial homeostasis is challenged physiologically or pathologically. Transforming growth factor-βs (TGF-βs), activins, bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), and growth and differentiation factors (GDFs) have been implicated in the regulation of epithelial differentiation. These TGF-β family ligands are expressed and secreted at sites where the epithelium interacts with the mesenchyme and provide paracrine queues from the mesenchyme to the neighboring epithelium, helping the specification of differentiated epithelial cell types within an organ. TGF-β ligands signal via Smads and cooperating kinase pathways and control the expression or activities of key transcription factors that promote either epithelial differentiation or mesenchymal transitions. In this review, we discuss evidence that illustrates how TGF-β family ligands contribute to epithelial differentiation and induce mesenchymal transitions, by focusing on the embryonic ectoderm and tissues that form the external mammalian body lining.
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