Acute response to pathogens in the early human placenta at single-cell resolution

R Hoo, ER Ruiz-Morales, I Kelava, M Rawat… - Cell Systems, 2024 - cell.com
The placenta is a selective maternal-fetal barrier that provides nourishment and protection
from infections. However, certain pathogens can attach to and even cross the placenta …

Emergent order in epithelial sheets by interplay of cell divisions and cell fate regulation

P Greulich - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The fate choices of stem cells between self-renewal and differentiation are often tightly
regulated by juxtacrine (cell-cell contact) signalling. Here, we assess how the interplay …

Cell competition in homeostasis and during tumorigenesis of mammalian epithelia

J Groenhof - 2023 - studenttheses.uu.nl
Cell competition is a process that controls tissue quality by mediating cell growth. It plays a
role in maintaining homeostasis, embryonic development, tissue repair and was recently …