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Nature Cell Biology 1, E179 - E181 (1999)
doi:10.1038/15616
The dynamic organizer
Ronen Schweitzer1 & Clifford J. Tabin1
- Ronen Schweitzer and Clifford J. Tabin are in the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Correspondence to: Clifford J. Tabin1 e-mail: tabin@rascal.med.harvard.edu
Abstract
The organizer is a region in gastrulating embryos that induces and patterns the body axis. New research shows that induction of organizer formation is regulated by interplay of inducing and inhibiting ligands that affect the cells as they migrate through the organizer.
