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The ciliary proteins Meckelin and Jouberin are required for retinoic acid-dependent neural differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells.
Differentiation; research in biological diversity - 1 Jan 2000
Romani Sveva, Illi Barbara, De Mori Roberta, Savino Mauro, Gleeson Joseph G, Valente Enza Maria
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The dysfunction of the primary cilium, a complex, evolutionarily conserved, organelle playing an important role in sensing and transducing cell signals, is the unifying pathogenetic mechanism of a growing number of diseases collectively termed "ciliopathies", typically characterized by multiorgan involvement. Developmental defects of the central nervous system (CNS) characterize a subset of ciliopathies showing...
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