How to initiate tissue regeneration by generating mutually exclusive cell states.

A healing wound is made of cells that paused proliferation and secrete mitogenic factors and cells that proliferate to replace those lost to cell death. A new study in PLOS Biology describes how 2 conserved signaling pathways could repress each other to create these mutually exclusive cell states.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tin Tin Su
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-06-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002155