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Chicken Recombinant Limbs Assay to Understand Morphogenesis, Patterning, and Early Steps in Cell Differentiation
Published on: January 12, 2022
1Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 3-1-1 Maidashi Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan. miura_t@anat1.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Limb development has been widely studied in developmental biology. Two types of theories, one based on positional information and another based on spontaneous pattern formation, are utilized to understand this process. However, for historical reasons, these two concepts are regarded as mutually exclusive. By considering the interaction between these two mechanisms with quantitative morphological data, we can experimentally explore how the vertebrate limb skeletal pattern is established from a new direction.
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