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Leclerc K, Costantini F. Mosaic analysis of cell rearrangements during ureteric bud branching in dissociated/reaggregated kidney cultures and in vivo. Dev Dyn. 2016 Apr;245(4):483-96. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.24387
Riccio P, Cebrian C, Zong H, Hippenmeyer S, Costantini F. Ret and Etv4 Promote Directed Movements of Progenitor Cells during Renal Branching Morphogenesis. PLoS Biol. 2016 Feb 19;14(2):e1002382. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002382. Erratum in: PLoS Biol. 2016 Jun;14(6):e1002488.
Costantini, F. RET Signaling in Ureteric Bud Formation and Branching. In Kidney Development, Repair and Regeneration, 1st Edition. Little, M., Editor. 2015, Elsevier.
Cebrian, C., Asai, N., D’Agati, V. and Costantini, F. The number of fetal nephron progenitor cells limits ureteric branching and adult nephron endowment. Cell Reports 7, 127–137 (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2014.02.033. PMCID:PMC4049224
Packard, A, Georgas, K, Michos, O, Riccio, P, Cebrian, C, Combes, AN, Ju, A, Ferrer-Vaquer, A, Hadjantonakis, A-K, Zong, H, Little, MH, Costantini, F. Luminal mitosis drives epithelial cell dispersal within the branching ureteric bud. Developmental Cell, 2013, 27(3):319-30. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2013.09.001. PMCID: PMC3926506.
Costantini, F. Genetic controls and cellular behaviors in branching morphogenesis of the renal collecting system. WIREs Dev Biol 2012, 1:693–713. Doi: 10.1002/wdev.52 PMCID:PMC3430146