Adhesive Crosstalk in Gastrulation
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lation. Recent studies show that signaling through integrin As a first step in describing the nature of the crosstalk receptors is required for normal cell movements durbetween integrin and C-cadherin, Marsden and DeSiing Xenopus gastrulation. Integrins function in this mone present evidence that integrin-mediated homoprocess by modulating the activity of cadherin adhetypic cell binding in different types of cell sorting and sion molecules within tissues undergoing converinvasion assays is dependent on C-cadherin activity gence and extension movements. during Xenopus gastrulation. These observations indi-
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