Nature Communications (May 2022)

Serotonin limits generation of chromaffin cells during adrenal organ development

  • Polina Kameneva,
  • Victoria I. Melnikova,
  • Maria Eleni Kastriti,
  • Anastasia Kurtova,
  • Emil Kryukov,
  • Aliia Murtazina,
  • Louis Faure,
  • Irina Poverennaya,
  • Artem V. Artemov,
  • Tatiana S. Kalinina,
  • Nikita V. Kudryashov,
  • Michael Bader,
  • Jan Skoda,
  • Petr Chlapek,
  • Lucie Curylova,
  • Lukas Sourada,
  • Jakub Neradil,
  • Marketa Tesarova,
  • Massimo Pasqualetti,
  • Patricia Gaspar,
  • Vasily D. Yakushov,
  • Boris I. Sheftel,
  • Tomas Zikmund,
  • Jozef Kaiser,
  • Kaj Fried,
  • Natalia Alenina,
  • Elena E. Voronezhskaya,
  • Igor Adameyko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30438-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Adrenal glands are major organs regulating stress response., Melnikova et al., show that local release of serotonin limits adrenalin-producing cell number during rodent development, a mechanism which has implications for neuroblastoma development and stress-related maternal effects transmitted to progeny.