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Vitamin-A-induced mucous metaplasia. An in vitro system for modulating tight and gap junction differentiation

Stratified squamous epithelia from 14-day chick embryo shank skin contain rare tight-junctional strands and only small gap junctions. Exposure of this tissue to retinoic acid (vitamin-A) (20 U/ml) in organ culture, however, induces mucous metaplasia, accompanied by tight- junction formation and gap-...

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Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1976
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2109636/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1245547