Ectodermal progenitors derived from epiblast stem cells by inhibition of Nodal signaling
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The ectoderm has the capability to generate epidermis and neuroectoderm and plays imperative roles during the early embryonic development. Our recent study uncovered a region with ectodermal progenitor potential in mouse embryo at embryonic day 7.0 and revealed that Nodal inhibition is essential for its formation. Here, we demonstrate that through brief inhibition of Nodal signaling in vitro, mouse embryonic stem cell (ESC)-derived epiblast stem cells (ESD-EpiSCs) could be committed to transient ectodermal progenitor populations, which possess the ability to give rise to neural or epidermal ectoderm in the absence or presence of BMP4, respectively. Mechanistic studies reveal that BMP4 recruits distinct transcriptional targets in ESD-EpiSCs and ectoderm-like cells. Furthermore, FGF-Erk signaling may also be alleviated during the generation of ectoderm-like cells. Thus, our data suggest that instructive interactions among several extracellular signals participate in the commitment of ectoderm from ESD-EpiSCs, which shed new light on the understanding of the formation of ectoderm during the gastrulation in early mouse embryo development.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it