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Notch signalling and the synchronization of the somite segmentation clock.
Nature - 23 Nov 2000
Jiang Y J, Aerne B L, Smithers L, Haddon C, Ish-Horowicz D, Lewis J
Abstract excerpt
In vertebrates with mutations in the Notch cell-cell communication pathway, segmentation fails: the boundaries demarcating somites, the segments of the embryonic body axis, are absent or irregular. This phenotype has prompted many investigations, but the role of Notch signalling in somitogenesis remains mysterious. Somite patterning is thought to be governed by a "clock-and-wavefront" mechanism: a biochemical...
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