Search Results - "Mort, Richard L"
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The melanocyte lineage in development and disease
Published in Development (Cambridge) (15-02-2015)“…Melanocyte development provides an excellent model for studying more complex developmental processes. Melanocytes have an apparently simple aetiology,…”
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Hierarchical patterning modes orchestrate hair follicle morphogenesis
Published in PLoS biology (11-07-2017)“…Two theories address the origin of repeating patterns, such as hair follicles, limb digits, and intestinal villi, during development. The Turing…”
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A Multi-stage Representation of Cell Proliferation as a Markov Process
Published in Bulletin of mathematical biology (01-12-2017)“…The stochastic simulation algorithm commonly known as Gillespie’s algorithm (originally derived for modelling well-mixed systems of chemical reactions) is now…”
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Rapid mechanosensitive migration and dispersal of newly divided mesenchymal cells aid their recruitment into dermal condensates
Published in PLoS biology (25-09-2023)“…Embryonic mesenchymal cells are dispersed within an extracellular matrix but can coalesce to form condensates with key developmental roles. Cells within…”
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Reconciling diverse mammalian pigmentation patterns with a fundamental mathematical model
Published in Nature communications (06-01-2016)“…Bands of colour extending laterally from the dorsal to ventral trunk are a common feature of mouse chimeras. These stripes were originally taken as evidence of…”
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P-Rex1 is required for efficient melanoblast migration and melanoma metastasis
Published in Nature communications (22-11-2011)“…Metastases are the major cause of death from melanoma, a skin cancer that has the fastest rising incidence of any malignancy in the Western world. Molecular…”
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PLAA Mutations Cause a Lethal Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy by Disrupting Ubiquitin-Mediated Endolysosomal Degradation of Synaptic Proteins
Published in American journal of human genetics (04-05-2017)“…During neurotransmission, synaptic vesicles undergo multiple rounds of exo-endocytosis, involving recycling and/or degradation of synaptic proteins. While…”
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Rac1 Drives Melanoblast Organization during Mouse Development by Orchestrating Pseudopod- Driven Motility and Cell-Cycle Progression
Published in Developmental cell (18-10-2011)“…During embryogenesis, melanoblasts proliferate and migrate ventrally through the developing dermis and epidermis as single cells. Targeted deletion of Rac1 in…”
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Maintenance of distinct melanocyte populations in the interfollicular epidermis
Published in Pigment cell and melanoma research (01-07-2015)“…Summary Hair follicles and sweat glands are recognized as reservoirs of melanocyte stem cells (MSCs). Unlike differentiated melanocytes, undifferentiated MSCs…”
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Increased corneal epithelial turnover contributes to abnormal homeostasis in the Pax6(+/-) mouse model of aniridia
Published in PloS one (13-08-2013)“…We aimed to test previous predictions that limbal epithelial stem cells (LESCs) are quantitatively deficient or qualitatively defective in Pax6(+/-) mice and…”
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Melanins as Sustainable Resources for Advanced Biotechnological Applications
Published in Global challenges (01-02-2021)“…Melanins are a class of biopolymers that are widespread in nature and have diverse origins, chemical compositions, and functions. Their chemical, electrical,…”
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Effects of aberrant Pax6 gene dosage on mouse corneal pathophysiology and corneal epithelial homeostasis
Published in PloS one (29-12-2011)“…Altered dosage of the transcription factor PAX6 causes multiple human eye pathophysiologies. PAX6⁺/⁻ heterozygotes suffer from aniridia and aniridia-related…”
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Computer simulation of neutral drift among limbal epithelial stem cells of mosaic mice
Published in Stem cell research (01-07-2018)“…The use of mice that are mosaic for reporter gene expression underlies many lineage-tracing studies in stem cell biology. For example, using mosaic LacZ…”
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Stem cells and corneal epithelial maintenance: insights from the mouse and other animal models
Published in Results and problems in cell differentiation (2012)“…Maintenance of the corneal epithelium is essential for vision and is a dynamic process incorporating constant cell production, movement and loss. Although…”
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The melanocyte lineage in development and disease
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Epigenetic remodelling licences adult cholangiocytes for organoid formation and liver regeneration
Published in Nature cell biology (01-11-2019)“…Following severe or chronic liver injury, adult ductal cells (cholangiocytes) contribute to regeneration by restoring both hepatocytes and cholangiocytes. We…”
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Activated Mutant NRasQ61K Drives Aberrant Melanocyte Signaling, Survival, and Invasiveness via a Rac1-Dependent Mechanism
Published in Journal of investigative dermatology (01-11-2012)“…Around a fifth of melanomas exhibit an activating mutation in the oncogene NRas that confers constitutive signaling to proliferation and promotes tumor…”
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The invasion speed of cell migration models with realistic cell cycle time distributions
Published in Journal of theoretical biology (21-11-2019)“…•Given the average cell-cycle time, the minimum invasion speed is obtained when the cell-cycle time is Dirac-delta distributed;•We find the range of…”
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A Cell/Cilia Cycle Biosensor for Single-Cell Kinetics Reveals Persistence of Cilia after G1/S Transition Is a General Property in Cells and Mice
Published in Developmental cell (19-11-2018)“…The cilia and cell cycles are inextricably linked. Centrioles in the basal body of cilia nucleate the ciliary axoneme and sequester pericentriolar matrix (PCM)…”
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Fingerprinting of skin cells by live cell Raman spectroscopy reveals melanoma cell heterogeneity and cell‐type‐specific responses to UVR
Published in Experimental dermatology (01-10-2022)“…Raman spectroscopy is an emerging dermatological technique with the potential to discriminate biochemically between cell types in a label‐free and non‐invasive…”
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