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An essential role for Radar (Gdf6a) in inducing dorsal fate in the zebrafish retina.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Feb 2009
Gosse Nathan J, Baier Herwig
Abstract excerpt
Retinal ganglion cells form orderly topographic connections with the tectum, establishing a continuous neural representation of visual space. Mapping along the dorsal-ventral axis requires interactions between EphB and ephrin-B cell-surface molecules expressed as countergradients in both retina and tectum. We have discovered that the diffusible TGFss-related factor Radar (Gdf6a) is necessary and sufficient for...
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