Clare K. Murphy's research while affiliated with Vanderbilt University and other places

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The canonical Wnt signaling pathway, mediated by the transcription factor β-catenin, plays critical roles in embryonic development and represents an important therapeutic target. In a zebrafish-based in vivo screen for small molecules that specifically perturb embryonic dorsoventral patterning, we discovered a compound named windorphen that selecti...
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Angiogenesis, a physiological process of forming new blood vessels from pre-existing ones, plays a vital role in organogenesis, tissue response to ischemia, and malignant tumor growth. Angiogenesis is a complex process, requiring a finely tuned balance between various stimulatory and inhibitory signals. Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) a...
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Spontaneously contracting focus of cardiomyocytes expressing DsRed-Nuc protein under the α-MHC promoter formed from dorsomorphin-treated ES cells at day 12 of differentiation. (1.15 MB AVI)
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Dorsomorphin treatment from day −3 to 2 promotes cardiomyogenesis at the expense of other mesodermal lineages. (A) Dorsomorphin treatment (from day −3 to 2) blunted the induction of BryT expression at day 3 of differentiation (*p = 0.01), but resulted in higher BryT expression at day 4, in comparison to controls (**p = 0.0424). Dorsomorphin treatme...
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Phase contrast movie of spontaneously contracting foci of cardiomyocytes formed from dorsomorphin-treated ES cells on a gelatin-coated plate. (0.89 MB AVI)
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Spontaneously contracting EB formed from dorsomorphin-treated ES cells on a 96-well microtiter plate. (0.81 MB AVI)
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Dorsomorphin (DM) treatment of ES cells efficiently blocks activation of the BMP-target gene Id1. Treatment of mouse ES cells with 2 µM DM from day 0 to 1 of differentiation resulted in a 96.1% reduction in the expression levels of the BMP-target gene Id1 at day 1 (*p<0.0001). All results are compared to DMSO-vehicle treatment as negative control....
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Background Pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells, which have the capacity to give rise to all tissue types in the body, show great promise as a versatile source of cells for regenerative therapy. However, the basic mechanisms of lineage specification of pluripotent stem cells are largely unknown, and generating sufficient quantities of desired cell...

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... To discover new potential regulators of cancer, we turned to developmental processes, as key regulators of embryonic development are known to play critical roles in cancer [27][28][29][30]. We conducted an unbiased chemical genetic screen of ~ 30,000 compounds to identify novel small molecules that selectively perturb zebrafish development [25,26,31,32]. This screening effort led to the identification of 5-ethyl-5'-(1-naphthyl)-3'H-spiro [indole-3,2'-[1, 3, 4]thiadiazole]-2-one, herein named ogremorphin-1 (OGM1) (Fig. 1A). ...
... [33]. Dorsomorphin, as an inhibitor of BMP signaling pathway, can induce Smad activation and promote the generation of cardiomyocytes [34]. The inhibition of HDAC by VPA enables the regulation of cellular proliferation, apoptosis, and differentiation [35]. ...