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β-catenin/Wnt signaling controls progenitor fate in the developing and regenerating zebrafish retina.
Neural development - 24 Aug 2012
Meyers Jason R, Hu Lily, Moses Ariel, Kaboli Kavon, Papandrea Annemarie, Raymond Pamela A
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BACKGROUND: The zebrafish retina maintains two populations of stem cells: first, the germinal zone or ciliary marginal zone (CMZ) contains multipotent retinal progenitors that add cells to the retinal periphery as the fish continue to grow; second, radial glia (Müller cells) occasionally divide asymmetrically to generate committed progenitors that differentiate into rod photoreceptors, which are added...
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