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A mechanism for the sharp transition of morphogen gradient interpretation in Xenopus

BACKGROUND: One way in which positional information is established during embryonic development is through the graded distribution of diffusible morphogens. Unfortunately, little is known about how cells interpret different concentrations of morphogen to activate different genes or how thresholds ar...

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Autores principales: Saka, Yasushi, Smith, James C
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1885807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17506890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-7-47