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SUBMITTER: Tadokoro T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4813333 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tadokoro Tomomi T Gao Xia X Hong Charles C CC Hotten Danielle D Hogan Brigid L M BL
Development (Cambridge, England) 20160125 5
The pseudostratified epithelium of the lung contains ciliated and secretory luminal cells and basal stem/progenitor cells. To identify signals controlling basal cell behavior we screened factors that alter their self-renewal and differentiation in a clonal organoid (tracheosphere) assay. This revealed that inhibitors of the canonical BMP signaling pathway promote proliferation but do not affect lineage choice, whereas exogenous Bmp4 inhibits proliferation and differentiation. We therefore follow ...[more]