Development: Morphogen gradients and mesodermal patterning
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Development: Morphogen gradients and mesodermal patterning
Activin has long-range effects in Xenopus development, inducing the mesodermally expressed brachyury gene up to 10 cell diameters from a localised source. Recent experiments show that activin diffuses through tissues to establish a morphogen gradient, and that the long-range effects are a direct result of activin signalling.
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00359-9