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The niche-dependent feedback loop generates a BMP activity gradient to determine the germline stem cell fate.
Current biology : CB - 20 Mar 2012
Xia Laixin, Zheng Xiudeng, Zheng Wenjing, Zhang Guoqiang, Wang Hailong, Tao Yi, Chen Dahua
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Stem cells interact with surrounding stromal cells (or niche) via signaling pathways to precisely balance stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. However, little is known about how niche signals are transduced dynamically and differentially to stem cells and their intermediate progeny and how the fate switch of stem cell to differentiating cell is initiated. The Drosophila ovarian germline stem cells (GSCs)...
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