Retinoic Acid: Morphogen or More Mysteries?
- 27 April 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nutrition Reviews
- Vol. 50 (1) , 19-20
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-4887.1992.tb02457.x
Abstract
It has been proposed that retinoic acid is a vertebrate morphogen that can regulate pattern formation in developing limbs. However, recent experiments raise questions about the validity of this hypothesis.Keywords
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