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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2023

Context-dependent TGFβ family signalling in cell fate regulation.

Louise Richardson, Scott G Wilcockson, Luca Guglielmi, Caroline S Hill

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Louise Richardson *Developmental Signalling Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Scott G Wilcockson *Developmental Signalling Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Luca GuglielmiDevelopmental Signalling Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Caroline S HillDevelopmental Signalling Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. caroline.hill@crick.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-8632-0480
The Francis Crick Institute · GBMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) family are a large group of evolutionarily conserved cytokines whose signalling modulates cell fate decision-making across varying cellular contexts at different stages of life. Here we discuss new findings in early embryos that reveal how, in contrast to our original understanding of morphogen interpretation, robust cell fate specification can originate from a noisy combination of signalling inputs and a broad range of signalling levels. We compare this evidence with novel findings on the roles of TGFβ family signalling in tissue maintenance and homeostasis during juvenile and adult life, spanning the skeletal, haemopoietic and immune systems. From these comparisons, it emerges that in contrast to robust developing systems, relatively small perturbations in TGFβ family signalling have detrimental effects at later stages in life, leading to aberrant cell fate specification and disease, for example in cancer or congenital disorders. Finally, we highlight novel strategies to target and amend dysfunction in signalling and discuss how gleaning knowledge from different fields of biology can help in the development of therapeutics for aberrant TGFβ family signalling in disease.

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NeoplasmsTransforming Growth Factor betaHumansSignal TransductionTransforming Growth Factor beta

Identifiers

PMID37596501
OpenAlexW4385978354

What Socratic holds

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