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Pascale Dufourcq1, Sophie Vriz.
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The work presented in this study focuses on blastema formation in epimorphic regeneration. We describe the expression pattern of Sdf1a and Sdf1b (the chemokines stromal-cell-derived factor-1a and 1b) and their two receptors Cxcr4a and Cxcr4b during zebrafish fin regeneration. We demonstrate that Sdf1a/Cxcr4a plays a critical role in fin regeneration and more precisely in epidermal cell proliferation, an important process for blastema formation. In mammals, a single cxcr4 gene is involved both in chemotaxis and cell proliferation and survival; we discuss in this study a possible functional division of the two cxcr4 zebrafish genes.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16586100 DOI: 10.1007/s00427-006-0066-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Dev Genes Evol ISSN: 0949-944X Impact factor: 0.900