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Zebrafish mutants identify an essential role for laminins in notochord formation.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Jul 2002
Parsons Michael J, Pollard Steven M, Saúde Leonor, Feldman Benjamin, Coutinho Pedro, Hirst Elizabeth M A, Stemple Derek L
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Basement membranes are thought to be essential for organ formation, providing the scaffold on which individual cells organize to form complex tissues. Laminins are integral components of basement membranes. To understand the development of a simple vertebrate organ, we have used positional cloning to characterize grumpy and sleepy, two zebrafish loci known to control notochord formation, and find that they encode...
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