"Extremities" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The farthest or outermost projections of the body, such as the HAND and FOOT.
| Descriptor ID |
D005121
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A01.378
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Extremities" by people in this website by year, and whether "Extremities" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1999 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2002 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2003 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Extremities" by people in Profiles.
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Trostle AJ, Cherubino MA, Sokolowskei D, Sammarco MC, McCusker CD, Tower RJ. Conserved anterior/posterior tissue asymmetry encodes proximal/distal positional information during axolotl limb regeneration. Cell Rep. 2026 Jul 28; 45(7):117669.
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Cherubino M, McCusker CD. The cellular logic of limb regeneration. Elife. 2026 Jan 22; 15.
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Kalhoro I, Blodgett L, Jafari R, Sternad D, Paydarfar D. Tracking Limb Movement in Preterm Infants Using an Inertial Measurement Bracelet. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2025 Jul; 2025:1-7.
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Raymond MJ, McCusker CD. Protocol for patterning competency assay in regenerative axolotl limb cells using the competency accessory limb model. STAR Protoc. 2025 Sep 19; 6(3):103920.
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Li C, Putterman E, Yim K, Deng A, Levin NA. Asymptomatic telangiectatic macules on the trunk and proximal extremities. Dermatol Online J. 2025 Jun 15; 31(3).
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Raymond MJ, Cherubino MA, Vieira WA, Manon S, McCusker CD. Neural regulation of H3K27me3 during the induction of patterning competency in regenerating Axolotl limb cells. Commun Biol. 2025 Apr 24; 8(1):659.
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Raymond M, Mccusker CD. The Accessory Limb Model Regenerative Assay and Its Derivatives. Methods Mol Biol. 2023; 2562:217-233.
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Thalji SZ, Ethun CG, Tsai S, Gamblin TC, Clarke CN, Bedi M, King D, LoGiudice J, Poultsides G, Grignol VP, Tseng J, Votanopoulos K, Fields RC, Cardona K, Mogal H. Outcomes of plastic surgical reconstruction in extremity and truncal soft tissue sarcoma:?Results from the US Sarcoma Collaborative. J Surg Oncol. 2023 Mar; 127(4):550-559.
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McCusker C, Rosello-Diez A. In preprints: new insights into proximodistal limb patterning and differentiation. Development. 2022 10 01; 149(19).
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Duerr TJ, Jeon EK, Wells KM, Villanueva A, Seifert AW, McCusker CD, Monaghan JR. A constitutively expressed fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell-cycle indicator (FUCCI) in axolotls for studying tissue regeneration. Development. 2022 03 15; 149(6).