Metabolic gradients: a new system for old questions.
Metabolic gradients are likely to be crucial to normal and abnormal development of cells and tissues. As shown by a new study, a Xenopus egg model system has great promise to illuminate quantitative measures of metabolic gradients in living cytoplasm.
Blackstone
Neil W
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Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois 60115, USA.
D000818:Animals; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000378:metabolism*; D047108:Embryonic Development / Q000502:physiology*; D010063:Ovum / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology; D014981:Xenopus / Q000196:embryology / Q000378:metabolism*