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Hippocampus formation: an intriguing collaboration
1Department of Biological Structure, Center for Developmental Biology, University of Washington, Box 357420, Seattle, 98117-7420, USA. roelink@u.washington.edu
Current Biology : CB
|February 7, 2001
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Recent genetic studies have shown that the signalling factor Wnt3a is required for formation of the hippocampus; the developmental consequences of Wnt signalling in the hippocampus are mediated by multiple HMG-box transcription factors, with LEF-1 being required just for formation of the dentate gyrus.
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