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Difference in the maternal and zygotic contributions of tumorhead on embryogenesis.
Developmental biology - 15 Mar 2003
Wu Chuan Fen, Chan Agnes Pui-Yee, Etkin Laurence D
Abstract excerpt
Tumorhead (TH) is a maternally expressed gene in Xenopus laevis, that when overexpressed, increased proliferation of ectodermal derivatives and inhibited neural and epidermal differentiation. However, injection of anti-TH antibodies inhibited cleavage of all blastomeres, not only those contributing to the ectoderm. The injection of TH morpholino antisense oligonucleotide (TH-MO), which inhibits translation of TH...
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