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Hen's teeth with enamel cap: from dream to impossibility

BACKGROUND: The ability to form teeth was lost in an ancestor of all modern birds, approximately 100-80 million years ago. However, experiments in chicken have revealed that the oral epithelium can respond to inductive signals from mouse mesenchyme, leading to reactivation of the odontogenic pathway...

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Autores principales: Sire, Jean-Yves, Delgado, Sidney C, Girondot, Marc
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2542379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18775069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-246