Saka Y (2008), Yasushi Saka: stirring a melting pot of math an...

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J Cell Biol 2008 Jun 02;1815:716-7. doi: 10.1083/jcb.1815pi.

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Yasushi Saka: stirring a melting pot of math and morphogens. Interviewed by Ruth Williams.

Saka Y .

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: inhba

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References [+] :

Saka, A screen for targets of the Xenopus T-box gene Xbra. 2000, Pubmed, Xenbase

	Figure 1. Yasushi Saka
	Figure 2. The morphogen, activin, which Saka studies, prompts a regulatory protein to enter the nucleus and activate target genes (right).
	Figure 3. Saka studies tissue morphogenesis in the frog. In one of his studies, he followed the different patterns of cell division that arise in different tissues.