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Christina Marie Breneman

Cornell UniversityORCID 0009-0009-7593-7184Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1

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Developmental BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewedJul 22, 2025

Polyploidy promotes transformation of epithelial cells into non-professional phagocytes

Yi‐Chun Huang, Caique Almeida Machado Costa, Nicolas Vergara Ruiz…·Wu‐Min Deng

This study shows that polyploidy, induced by Notch signaling, enables epithelial cells to become non-professional phagocytes during stress, facilitating phagocytic functions essential for tissue homeostasis.

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