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Notch Signaling: Cell Fate Control and Signal Integration in Development

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, +2 more
- 30 Apr 1999 - 
- Vol. 284, Iss: 5415, pp 770-776
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Notch signaling defines an evolutionarily ancient cell interaction mechanism, which plays a fundamental role in metazoan development, providing a general developmental tool to influence organ formation and morphogenesis.
Abstract
Notch signaling defines an evolutionarily ancient cell interaction mechanism, which plays a fundamental role in metazoan development. Signals exchanged between neighboring cells through the Notch receptor can amplify and consolidate molecular differences, which eventually dictate cell fates. Thus, Notch signals control how cells respond to intrinsic or extrinsic developmental cues that are necessary to unfold specific developmental programs. Notch activity affects the implementation of differentiation, proliferation, and apoptotic programs, providing a general developmental tool to influence organ formation and morphogenesis.

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Alzheimer's Disease: Genes, Proteins, and Therapy

TL;DR: Evidence that the presenilin proteins, mutations in which cause the most aggressive form of inherited AD, lead to altered intramembranous cleavage of the beta-amyloid precursor protein by the protease called gamma-secretase has spurred progress toward novel therapeutics and provided discrete biochemical targets for drug screening and development.
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Signaling--2000 and beyond.

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Notch signalling: a simple pathway becomes complex

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Out of Eden: Stem Cells and Their Niches

TL;DR: Both intrinsic and extrinsic signals regulate stem cell fate and some of these signals have now been identified and can be exploited in the application of stem cells to tissue replacement therapy.
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Asymmetric Expression of Notch/Delta/Serrate Is Associated with the Anterior–Posterior Axis of Feather Buds

TL;DR: Results lead us to hypothesize that Notch, Delta, and Serrate are involved in establishing the A-P asymmetry of feather buds.
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Boundary formation in Drosophila wing : Notch activity attenuated by the POU protein nubbin

Carl J. Neumann, +1 more
- 17 Jul 1998 - 
TL;DR: Evidence is presented here that the POU domain protein Nubbin contributes to the formation of a sharp dorsoventral boundary in the Drosophila wing.
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Alzheimer's disease. In search of gamma-secretase.

TL;DR: This paper showed that presenilins regulate both As production and Notch processing by influencing unusual protein-cleavage events in Alzheimer's disease, and showed that the presenILINs are involved in the Notch signalling pathway that operates during development.
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Evidence for Physical and Functional Association Between EMB-5 and LIN-12 in Caenorhabditis elegans

TL;DR: Evidence presented here suggests that the intracellular domains of LIN-12 and GLP-1 interact with the C. elegans EMB-5 protein and that the emb-5 gene functions in the same pathway as the lin- 12 and glp-1 genes.
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