Construcción de un embrión de vertebrado a partir de dos gradientes morfógenos opuestos

Peng-Fei Xu1, Nathalie Houssin, Karine F Ferri-Lagneau

  • 1Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 5, 2014
PubMed
Resumen

Los gradientes opuestos de la proteína morfogénica ósea (BMP) y la señalización nodal son suficientes para organizar las células pluripotentes en un embrión de pez cebra bien desarrollado. Este hallazgo revela las condiciones mínimas para la autoorganización embrionaria in vivo e in vitro.

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