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Regulation of multiple tip formation by caffeine in cellular slime molds

BACKGROUND: The multicellular slug in Dictyostelium has a single tip that acts as an organising centre patterning the rest of the slug. High adenosine levels at the tip are believed to be responsible for this tip dominance and the adenosine antagonist, caffeine overrides this dominance promoting mul...

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Autores principales: Jaiswal, Pundrik, Singh, Shashi Prakash, Aiyar, Prasad, Akkali, Rakhil, Baskar, Ramamurthy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3488011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22928977
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-12-26