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Cell Signaling, Disease and Stem Cells
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- January 2012 Volume 22, No 1
The January 2012 special issue on Cell Signaling, Disease and Stem Cells brings together the latest reviews and articles in the field. The current understanding, as well as the recent advances in various aspects of cell signaling, stem cell biology, and their relevance to disease pathogenesis, is presented. Further background information on this important topic is available through the accompanying web focus which links to related articles from across Nature Publishing Group.
Reviews
Semaphorin signaling in angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis and cancer FREE
Atsuko Sakurai, Colleen Doci and J Silvio Gutkind
Cell Res 22: 23-32; advance online publication, December 13, 2011; doi:10.1038/cr.2011.198
Signal control through Raf: in sickness and in health FREE
Jihan K Osborne, Elma Zaganjor and Melanie H Cobb
Cell Res 22: 14-22; advance online publication, December 6, 2011; doi:10.1038/cr.2011.193
Autophagy: for better or for worse FREE
Ellen Wirawan, Tom Vanden Berghe, Saskia Lippens, Patrizia Agostinis and Peter Vandenabeele
Cell Res 22: 43-61; advance online publication, 13 September, 2011; doi:10.1038/cr.2011.152
Proteostasis regulation at the endoplasmic reticulum: a new perturbation site for targeted cancer therapy FREE
Yanfen Liu and Yihong Ye
Cell Res 21: 867-883; advance online publication, May 3, 2011; doi:10.1038/cr.2011.75
Articles
Transduction of the Hedgehog signal through the dimerization of Fused and the nuclear translocation of Cubitus interruptus FREE
Yanyan Zhang, Feifei Mao, Yi Lu, Wenqing Wu, Lei Zhang and Yun Zhao
Cell Res 21: 1436-1451; advance online publication, August 16, 2011; doi:10.1038/cr.2011.136
Reprogramming fibroblasts into induced pluripotent stem cells with Bmi1 FREE
Jai-Hee Moon, June Seok Heo, Jun Sung Kim, Eun Kyoung Jun, Jung Han Lee, Aeree Kim, Jonggun Kim, Kwang Youn Whang, Yong-Kook Kang, Seungeun Yeo, Hee-Joung Lim, Dong Wook Han, Dong-Wook Kim, Sejong Oh, Byung Sun Yoon, Hans R Schöler and Seungkwon You
Cell Res 21: 1305-1315; advance online publication, June 28, 2011; doi:10.1038/cr.2011.107
Rational optimization of reprogramming culture conditions for the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells with ultra-high efficiency and fast kinetics FREE
Jiekai Chen, Jing Liu, You Chen, Jiaqi Yang, Jing Chen, He Liu, Xiangjie Zhao, Kunlun Mo, Hong Song, Lin Guo, Shilong Chu, Deping Wang, Ke Ding and Duanqing Pei
Cell Res 21: 884-894; advance online publication, March 29, 2011; doi:10.1038/cr.2011.51
Mouse cloning and somatic cell reprogramming using electrofused blastomeres FREE
JAmjad Riaz, Xiaoyang Zhao, Xiangpeng Dai, Wei Li, Lei Liu, Haifeng Wan, Yang Yu, Liu Wang and Qi Zhou
Cell Res 21: 770-778; advance online publication, December 28, 2010; doi:10.1038/cr.2010.180
Human oocytes reprogram somatic cells to a pluripotent state
Scott Noggle, Ho-Lim Fung, Athurva Gore, Hector Martinez, Kathleen Crumm Satriani, Robert Prosser, Kiboong Oum, Daniel Paull, Sarah Druckenmiller, Matthew Freeby, Ellen Greenberg, Kun Zhang, Robin Goland, Mark V Sauer, Rudolph L Leibel and Dieter Egli
Nature 2011; 478: 70-75; doi:10.1038/nature10397
A reserve stem cell population in small intestine renders Lgr5-positive cells dispensable
Hua Tian, Brian Biehs, Søren Warming, Kevin G Leong, Linda Rangell, Ophir D Klein and Frederic J de Sauvage
Nature 2011; 478: 255-259; doi:10.1038/nature10408
Lgr5 homologues associate with Wnt receptors and mediate R-spondin signalling
Wim de Lau, Nick Barker, Teck Y Low, Bon-Kyoung Koo, Vivian S W Li, Hans Teunissen, Pekka Kujala, Andrea Haegebarth, Peter J Peters, Marc van de Wetering, D E Stange, J van Es, Daniele Guardavaccaro, Richard B M Schasfoort, Yasuaki Mohri, Katsuhiko Nishimori, Shabaz Mohammed, Albert J R Heck and Hans Clevers
Nature 2011; 476: 293-297; doi:10.1038/nature10337
Direct generation of functional dopaminergic neurons from mouse and human fibroblasts
Massimiliano Caiazzo, Maria Teresa Dell'Anno, Elena Dvoretskova, Dejan Lazarevic, Stefano Taverna, Damiana Leo, Tatyana D Sotnikova, Andrea Menegon, Paola Roncaglia, Giorgia Colciago, Giovanni Russo, Piero Carninci, Gianni Pezzoli, Raul R Gainetdinov, Stefano Gustincich, Alexander Dityatev and Vania Broccoli
Nature 2011; 476: 224-227; doi:10.1038/nature10284
Recapitulation of premature aging with iPSCs from Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome
Guang-Hui Liu, Basam Z Barkho, Sergio Ruiz, Dinh Diep, Jing Qu, Sheng-Lian Yang, Athanasia D Panopoulos, Keiichiro Suzuki, Leo Kurian, Christopher Walsh, James Thompson, Stephanie Boue, Ho Lim Fung, Ignacio Sancho-Martinez, Kun Zhang, John Yates 3rd and Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte
Nature 2011; 472: 221-225; doi:10.1038/nature09879
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