Chronic cocaine exposure in Drosophila: life, cell death and oogenesis
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Using a study on Drosophila melanogaster, the morphological defects caused during oogenesis, by drugs of abuse, like cocaine, are analyzed. Cocaine induction interrupts follicle formation.
Publication Name: Developmental Biology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0012-1606
Year: 2006
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Graded maternal short gastrulation protein contributes to embryonic dorsal-ventral patterning by delayed induction
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Using a study on Drosophila, the role of maternal bone morphogenetic proteins, decapentaplegic and short gastrulation, in embryonic patterning during oogenesis, is analyzed.
Publication Name: Developmental Biology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0012-1606
Year: 2006
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On the role of glypicans in the process of morphogen gradient formation
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A study on the morphogens and glypican interactions in Drosophila melanogaster is presented.
Publication Name: Developmental Biology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0012-1606
Year: 2006
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