Hedgehog Knockout Embryos Reduced Thymocyte Development in Sonic
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Functional association of retinoic acid and hedgehog signaling in Xenopus primary neurogenesis.
Previous work has shown that the posteriorising agent retinoic acid can accelerate anterior neuronal differentiation in Xenopus laevis embryos (Papalopulu, N. and Kintner, C. (1996) Development 122, 3409-3418). To elucidate the role of retinoic acid in the primary neurogenesis cascade, we investigated whether retinoic acid treatment of whole embryos could change the spatial expression of a set ...
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