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Cellular interactions during heart morphogenesis in the Drosophila embryo.
Biology of the cell - 1 Jan 1995
Zaffran S, Astier M, Gratecos D, Guillen A, Sémériva M
Abstract excerpt
The formation of the dorsal vessel or heart in a Drosophila melanogaster embryo can be divided into three main steps: i) the determination step allows individualization of heart precursor cells from the dorsal mesoderm. They are arranged in clusters of seven to nine cells, located in each of the eleven segments of the trunk. Preliminary observations suggest that the gene Notch could participate in the choice of...
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