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Lung

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    Paramore S, Goodwin K, Nelson C. How to build an epithelial tree. Phys Biol. 2022;19(6). PMID: 36317265
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    Lim A, Li Y, Lopez-Lastra S, Stadhouders R, Paul F, Casrouge A, Serafini N, Puel A, Bustamante J, Surace L, Masse-Ranson G, David E, Strick-Marchand H, Le Bourhis L, Cocchi R, Topazio D, Graziano P, Muscarella L, Rogge L, Norel X, Sallenave J-M, Allez M, Graf T, Hendriks R, Casanova J-L, Amit I, Yssel H, Di Santo J. Systemic Human ILC Precursors Provide a Substrate for Tissue ILC Differentiation. Cell. 2017;168(6):1086–1100.e10. PMID: 28283063
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    Kenney D, O’Connell A, Turcinovic J, Montanaro P, Hekman R, Tamura T, Berneshawi A, Cafiero T, Abdullatif S, Blum B, Goldstein S, Heller B, Gertje H, Bullitt E, Trachtenberg A, Chavez E, Nono E, Morrison C, Tseng A, Sheikh A, Kurnick S, Grosz K, Bosmann M, Ericsson M, Huber B, Saeed M, Balazs A, Francis K, Klose A, Paragas N, Campbell J, Connor J, Emili A, Crossland N, Ploss A, Douam F. Humanized mice reveal a macrophage-enriched gene signature defining human lung tissue protection during SARS-CoV-2 infection. Cell Rep. 2022;39(3):110714. PMCID: PMC8977517
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    Jaslove J, Goodwin K, Sundarakrishnan A, Spurlin J, Mao S, Košmrlj A, Nelson C. Transmural pressure signals through retinoic acid to regulate lung branching. Development. 2022;149(2). PMCID: PMC8917413
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    Meyer M, Wang Y, Edwards D, Smith G, Rubenstein A, Ramanathan P, Mire C, Pietzsch C, Chen X, Ge Y, Cheng W, Henry C, Woods A, Ma L, Stewart-Jones G, Bock K, Minai M, Nagata B, Periasamy S, Shi P-Y, Graham B, Moore I, Ramos I, Troyanskaya O, Zaslavsky E, Carfi A, Sealfon S, Bukreyev A. Attenuated activation of pulmonary immune cells in mRNA-1273-vaccinated hamsters after SARS-CoV-2 infection. J Clin Invest. 2021;131(20). PMCID: PMC8516449
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    Sanders D, Jumper C, Ackerman P, Bracha D, Donlic A, Kim H, Kenney D, Castello-Serrano I, Suzuki S, Tamura T, Tavares A, Saeed M, Holehouse A, Ploss A, Levental I, Douam F, Padera R, Levy B, Brangwynne C. SARS-CoV-2 requires cholesterol for viral entry and pathological syncytia formation. Elife. 2021;10. PMCID: PMC8104966
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    Goodwin K, Nelson C. Uncovering cellular networks in branching morphogenesis using single-cell transcriptomics. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2021;143:239–280. PMID: 33820623
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    Palmer M, Nelson C. Fusion of airways during avian lung development constitutes a novel mechanism for the formation of continuous lumena in multicellular epithelia. Dev Dyn. 2020;249(11):1318–1333. PMID: 32510705
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    Goodwin K, Nelson C. Branching morphogenesis. Development. 2020;147(10). PMID: 32444428
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    Goodwin K, Mao S, Guyomar T, Miller E, Radisky D, Košmrlj A, Nelson C. Smooth muscle differentiation shapes domain branches during mouse lung development. Development. 2019;146(22). PMCID: PMC6899029
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    Spurlin J, Siedlik M, Nerger B, Pang M-F, Jayaraman S, Zhang R, Nelson C. Mesenchymal proteases and tissue fluidity remodel the extracellular matrix during airway epithelial branching in the embryonic avian lung. Development. 2019;146(16). PMCID: PMC6737900
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    Shrine N, Guyatt A, Erzurumluoglu M, Jackson V, Hobbs B, Melbourne C, Batini C, Fawcett K, Song K, Sakornsakolpat P, Li X, Boxall R, Reeve N, Obeidat M, Zhao J, Wielscher M, Weiss S, Kentistou K, Cook J, Sun B, Zhou J, Hui J, Karrasch S, Imboden M, Harris S, Marten J, Enroth S, Kerr S, Surakka I, Vitart V, Lehtimäki T, Allen R, Bakke P, Beaty T, Bleecker E, Bossé Y, Brandsma C-A, Chen Z, Crapo J, Danesh J, DeMeo D, Dudbridge F, Ewert R, Gieger C, Gulsvik A, Hansell A, Hao K, Hoffman J, Hokanson J, Homuth G, Joshi P, Joubert P, Langenberg C, Li X, Li L, Lin K, Lind L, Locantore N, Luan J, Mahajan A, Maranville J, Murray A, Nickle D, Packer R, Parker M, Paynton M, Porteous D, Prokopenko D, Qiao D, Rawal R, Runz H, Sayers I, Sin D, Smith B, Artigas M, Sparrow D, Tal-Singer R, Timmers P, Van den Berge M, Whittaker J, Woodruff P, Yerges-Armstrong L, Troyanskaya O, Raitakari O, Kähönen M, Polašek O, Gyllensten U, Rudan I, Deary I, Probst-Hensch N, Schulz H, James A, Wilson J, Stubbe B, Zeggini E, Jarvelin M-R, Wareham N, Silverman E, Hayward C, Morris A, Butterworth A, Scott R, Walters R, Meyers D, Cho M, Strachan D, Hall I, Tobin M, Wain L, Understanding Society Scientific Group. New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries. Nat Genet. 2019;51(3):481–493. PMCID: PMC6397078
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    Wu K, Oberstein A, Wang W, Shenk T. Role of PDGF receptor-α during human cytomegalovirus entry into fibroblasts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018;115(42):E9889-E9898. PMCID: PMC6196492
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    Nerger B, Nelson C. 3D culture models for studying branching morphogenesis in the mammary gland and mammalian lung. Biomaterials. 2019;198:135–145. PMCID: PMC6387650
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    Nelson C, Gleghorn J, Pang M-F, Jaslove J, Goodwin K, Varner V, Miller E, Radisky D, Stone H. Microfluidic chest cavities reveal that transmural pressure controls the rate of lung development. Development. 2017;144(23):4328–4335. PMCID: PMC5769635
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    Spurlin J, Nelson C. Building branched tissue structures: from single cell guidance to coordinated construction. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2017;372(1720). PMCID: PMC5379029
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    Varner V, Nelson C. Computational models of airway branching morphogenesis. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2017;67:170–176. PMCID: PMC5136345
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    Kim H, Pang M-F, Varner V, Kojima L, Miller E, Radisky D, Nelson C. Localized Smooth Muscle Differentiation Is Essential for Epithelial Bifurcation during Branching Morphogenesis of the Mammalian Lung. Dev Cell. 2015;34(6):719–26. PMCID: PMC4589145
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