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Nature Cell Biology 1, E60 - E61 (1999)
doi:10.1038/11113
Cells in search of a signal
Ginés Morata1 & Konrad Basler2
- Ginés Morata is at the Centro de Biologia Molecular CSIC-UAM, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
- Konrad Basler is at the Institut für Molekularbiologie, Universität Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland.
Correspondence to: Ginés Morata1 e-mail: gmorata@cbm.uam.es
Abstract
During development, cells communicate by sending and receiving signals over long distances. New findings indicate that target cells may pick up signals by projecting long cytoplasmic extensions to the point at which the signals are produced.
