2017
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2017.06.004
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Left–Right Patterning: Breaking Symmetry to Asymmetric Morphogenesis

Abstract: Vertebrates exhibit striking left-right (L-R) asymmetries in the structure and position of the internal organs. Symmetry is broken by motile cilia-generated asymmetric fluid flow, resulting in a signaling cascade — the Nodal-Pitx2 pathway — being robustly established within mesodermal tissue on the left side only. This pathway impinges upon various organ primordia to instruct their side-specific development. Recently, progress has been made in understanding both the breaking of embryonic L-R symmetry and how t… Show more

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“…Because organ laterality is regulated by evolutionally conserved asymmetric L-R gene expression in vertebrates, we next examined the expression patterns of spaw and its downstream gene pitx2c [1,38]. At the late somite stages, we observed spaw and pitx2c expression in the left LPM in wild-type embryos, whereas expression of these genes was found to be bilateral or absent in cxcr4a um20 mutants and DFC 4a MO embryos (Fig 1I-1N).…”
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“…Because organ laterality is regulated by evolutionally conserved asymmetric L-R gene expression in vertebrates, we next examined the expression patterns of spaw and its downstream gene pitx2c [1,38]. At the late somite stages, we observed spaw and pitx2c expression in the left LPM in wild-type embryos, whereas expression of these genes was found to be bilateral or absent in cxcr4a um20 mutants and DFC 4a MO embryos (Fig 1I-1N).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Heterotaxia describes another rare situation (about 1:1.000), in which subsets of organs show normal or aberrant positioning and/or morphology, cases inevitably associated with severe disease syndromes [3][4][5][6] .…”
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“…A similar phenotype is observed in mice mutant for the RA coactivator Rere, in which RA signaling is decreased 1 . In the viscera, bilateral coordination of the development of the two embryonic sides is altered in response to a LR signaling pathway that controls their asymmetric development 8 . In mouse and zebrafish, an Fgf8-dependent signal derived from the Node activates Nodal in the left lateral plate to specify the left embryonic identity 910 .…”
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“…In mouse and zebrafish, an Fgf8-dependent signal derived from the Node activates Nodal in the left lateral plate to specify the left embryonic identity 910 . Mutation of Fgf8 or Nodal can result in situs inversus where visceral organs become organized in a mirror-image fashion 810 . The right-sided somitogenesis defect observed in RA-deficient mice can be reversed by crossing them with the inversus viscerum ( iv ) mutant mice in which embryos exhibit situs inversus 7,11 .…”
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