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Publications

  • Cyclopamine and jervine in embryonic rat tongue cultures demonstrate a role for Shh signaling in taste papilla development and patterning: fungiform papillae double in number and form in novel locations in dorsal lingual epithelium. Charlotte M. Mistretta, Hong-Xiang Liu, William Gaffield, and Donald K. MacCallum

  • Sonic hedgehog exerts distinct, stage-specific effects on tongue and taste papilla development. Hong-Xiang Liu, Donald K. MacCallum, Chris Edwards, William Gaffield, and Charlotte M. Mistretta.

  • Bone morphogenetic proteins and noggin: Inhibiting and inducing fungiform taste papilla development. Yanqiu Zhou, Hong-Xiang Liu, and Charlotte M. Mistretta.

  • Development of fungiform papillae: Patterned lingual gustatory organs. Charlotte M. Mistretta, and Hong-Xiang Liu.

  • Wnt signaling interacts with Shh to regulate taste papillae development. Ken Iwatsuki, Hong-Xiang Liu, Albert Grunder, Meredith A. Singer, Timothy F. Lane, Rudolf Grosschedl, Charlotte M. Mistretta, and Robert F. Margolskee.

  • Fungiform Papilla Pattern: EGF Regulates Inter-Papilla Lingual Epithelium and Decreases Papilla Number by Means of PI3K/Akt, MEK/ERK, and p38 MAPK Signaling. Hong-Xiang Liu, Bradley S. Henson, Yanqiu Zhou, Nisha J. D'Silva, and Charlotte M. Mistretta.

  • WNT5a in Tongue and Fungiform Papilla Development: Distinct Roles Compared with WNT10b and Other Morphogenetic Proteins. Hong-Xiang Liu, Ann M. Staubach Grosse, Katherine D. Walton, Daniel A. Saims, Deborah L. Gumucio, and Charlotte M. Mistretta. 

  • Neural crest contribution to lingual mesenchyme, epithelium and developing taste papillae and taste buds. Hong-Xiang Liu, Yoshihiro Komatsu, Yuji Mishina, and Charlotte M. Mistretta. 

  • Separate and distinctive roles for Wnt5a in tongue, lingual tissue and taste papilla development. Hong-Xiang Liu, Ann S. Grosse, Ken Iwatsuki, Yuji Mishina, Deborah L. Gumucio, and Charlotte M. Mistretta

  • Multiple Shh signaling centers participate in fungiform papilla and taste bud formation and maintenance. Hong Xiang Liu, Alexandre Ermilov, Marina Grachtchouk, Libo Liu, Deborah L. Gumucio, Andrzej A. Dlugosz, and Charalotte M. Mistretta. 

  • Taste Bud Labeling in Whole Tongue Epithelial Sheet in Adult Mice. Nandakumar Venkatesan, Kristin Boggs, and Hong-Xiang Liu

  • Corneal endothelial cells possess an elaborate multipolar shape to maximize the basolateral to apical membrane area. Theresa A. Harrison, Zhiguo He, Kristin Boggs, Gilles Thuret, Hong-Xiang Liu, and Dennis M. Defoe. 

  • Contribution of Underlying Connective Tissue Cells to Taste Buds in Mouse Tongue and Soft Palate. Kristin Boggs, Nandakumar Venkatesan, Ingmar Mederacke, Yoshihiro Komatsu, Steve Stice, Robert F. Schwabe, Charlotte M. Mistretta, Yuji Mishina, and Hong-Xiang Liu.

  • Distribution of a-Gustducin and Vimentin in premature and mature taste buds in chickens. Nandakumar Venkatesan, Prasangi Rajapaksha, Jason Payne, Forrest Goodfellow, Zhonghou Want, Fuminori Kawabata, Shoji Tabata, Steven Stice, Robert Beckstead, and Hong-Xiang Liu

  • Labeling and analysis of chicken taste buds using molecular markers in oral epithelial sheets. Prasangi Rajapaksha, Zhonghou Wang, Nandakumar Venkatesan, Kayvan F. Tehrani, Jason Payne, Raymond L. Swetenburg, Fuminori Kawabata, Shoji Tabata, Luke J. Mortensen, Steven L. Stice, Robert Beckstead, and Hong-Xiang Liu

  • Pig Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Rosettes Parallel Human Differentiation Into Sensory Neural Subtypes. Robin L. Webb, Amalia Gallegos-Cardenas, Colette N. Miller, Nicholas J. Solomotis, Hong-Xiang Liu, Franklin D. West, and Steven L. Stice. 

  • Specific and spatial labeling of P0-Cre versus Wnt1-Cre in cranial neural crest in early mosue embryos. Guiqian Chen, Mohamed Ishan, Jingwen Yang, Satoshi Kishigami, Tomokazu Fukuda, Greg Scott, Manas K. Ray, Chenming Sun, Shi-You Chen, Yoshihiro Komatsu, Yuji Mishina, and Hong-Xiang Liu

  • The clinical characteristics and prognosis of 73 patients with Nonfunctional Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasm: a 10-year retrospective study of a single center. Shanshan Bu, Danhong Ding, Xiushen Wang, Ruihua Fan, Jing Xu, Yongshun Chen, and Hong-Xiang Liu. 

  • RNA-Seq analysis on chicken taste sensory organs: An ideal system to study organogenesis. Xiaogang Cui, Brett Marshall, Ning Shi, Shi-You Chen, Romdhane Rekaya, and Hong-Xiang Liu.

  • Contribution of cranial neural crest cells to mouse skull development. Taofen Wu, Guiqian Chen, Fei Tian, and Hong-Xiang Liu

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