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Analysis of Retinoic Acid-induced Neural Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells in Two and Three-dimensional Embryoid Bodies
Published on: April 22, 2017
Retinoic acid and its receptors in limb regeneration
1Division of Biomedical Sciences, Developmental Biology Research Centre, King's College London, UK.
Abstract:
The effects of retinoids on the regenerating amphibian limb are described: the mesenchymal cells of the blastema can be proximalized, posteriorized and ventralized. Ectopic limbs are also induced after retinoid treatment of regenerating tails, but not during limb development unless the limb bud is damaged. The cellular and molecular alterations induced by retinoids are reported as well as experiments which have revealed the importance of endogenous retinoids for normal limb regeneration. Various retinoic acid receptors are expressed in the regeneration blastema and the experiments which have revealed functions for individual isoforms are described. These experiments reveal that retinoids are a crucial component of the normal, regenerating limb and demonstrate the value of the regenerating limb as an experimental system for providing functional data on individual retinoic acid receptors.
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