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Bart Weijts

Hubrecht Institute
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Proinflammatory signals as fuel for the fire of hematopoietic stem cell emergence

R Espin-Palazon, B Weijts, V Mulero, D Traver - Trends in cell biology, 2018 - cell.com
… and the intracellular accumulation of the major proinflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1β
and IL-18 via the master inflammation/immune transcription factor nuclear factor kappa B (NF…

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in developmental hematopoiesis: diving deeper with new technologies

B Weijts, L Yvernogeau, C Robin - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… and megakaryocytes (and possibly also few B lymphocytes and NK cells) through a second
… development and the persistence of some immune cells (ie B-cells) into adulthood (29–33). …

[HTML][HTML] NFATc2 is a necessary mediator of calcineurin-dependent cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure

…, AS Armand, PA da Costa Martins, B Weijts… - Journal of Biological …, 2008 - ASBMB
b, detection of NFAT autoregulation in hearts with calcineurin activation. The data demonstrate
that upon calcineurin/NFAT activation, nfatc1.1, nfatc3.1, and nfatc3.2 splice transcripts …

E2F7 and E2F8 promote angiogenesis through transcriptional activation of VEGFA in cooperation with HIF1

BGMW Weijts, WJ Bakker, PWA Cornelissen… - The EMBO …, 2012 - embopress.org
The E2F family of transcription factors plays an important role in controlling cell‐cycle
progression. While this is their best‐known function, we report here novel functions for the newest …

Gata2b is a restricted early regulator of hemogenic endothelium in the zebrafish embryo

E Butko, M Distel, C Pouget, B Weijts… - …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
The adult blood system is established by hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which arise during
development from an endothelial-to-hematopoietic transition of cells comprising the floor …

[HTML][HTML] Blood flow-induced Notch activation and endothelial migration enable vascular remodeling in zebrafish embryos

B Weijts, E Gutierrez, SK Saikin, AJ Ablooglu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
b Flow of blood was reduced by administering 3x MS222 at indicated time point. c Percentage
of venous ISVs in embryos with reduced blood flow. d Viscosity of blood was reduced by …

Multispecies RNA tomography reveals regulators of hematopoietic stem cell birth in the embryonic aorta

…, J Maas, I Morin-Poulard, B Weijts… - Blood, The Journal …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
… (B′) Enlarged view of the blue node shown in the box in panel B. (CD) Ten first biological
processes in GO terms (C) and most relevant KEGG pathways (D) enriched in the ligand-…

Loss of Pten promotes angiogenesis and enhanced vegfaa expression in zebrafish

S Choorapoikayil, B Weijts, R Kers… - Disease models & …, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
… (A,B) Quantitative PCR was performed to determine vegfaa expression levels in ptena−/−ptenb−/−
mutants compared with wild type at 4 dpf (A) and at 1, 2 and 3 dpf (B). Rescue …

Mecp2 regulates tnfa during zebrafish embryonic development and acute inflammation

…, O Svoboda, BG Weijts… - Disease models & …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
… (A,B,C) qPCR was performed to determine the whole-organism expression of tnfa from 4
hpf to 7 dpf (A), and il1b and il10 from 1 dpf to 7 dpf (B,C), in wild-type or mecp2-null zebrafish. …

[PDF][PDF] Control of epithelial cell migration and invasion by the IKKβ-and CK1α-mediated degradation of RAPGEF2

R Magliozzi, TY Low, BGMW Weijts, T Cheng… - Developmental cell, 2013 - cell.com
… Here, we report that in response to factors that promote cell motility, the Rap guanine
exchange factor RAPGEF2 is rapidly phosphorylated by I-kappa-Bkinase-b and casein kinase-1a …