Human distal lung maps and lineage hierarchies reveal a bipotent progenitor

2022/03/30 by Preetish Kadur Lakshminarasimha Murthy, Vishwaraj Sontake, Aleksandra Tata +14 · 371 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · #Alveolar cells #Biology #Cell #Cell biology #Cell type #Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Gene expression #Genetics #Lineage (genetic) #Lung #Medicine #Neonatal Respiratory Health Research #Neuroscience #Organoid #Pathology #Progenitor cell #Stem cell #Tracheal and airway disorders #Transcriptome

paper · open access · doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04541-3

published in Nature 604(7904), 111-119 (Nature Portfolio)

openalex publication_date 2022/03/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

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