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A role for the Drosophila Toll/Cactus pathway in larval hematopoiesis.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 May 1998
Qiu P, Pan P C, Govind S
Abstract excerpt
In the Drosophila larva, blood cells or hemocytes are formed in the lymph gland. The major blood cell type, called plasmatocyte, is small, non-adhesive and phagocytic. Plasmatocytes differentiate into adhesive lamellocytes to form multilayered capsules around foreign substances or, in mutant melanotic tumor strains, around self tissue. Mutations in cactus or Toll, or constitutive expression of dorsal can induce...
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