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It was suggested that this excess neural tissue arose from specification of excess uncommitted precursor cells to a neural fate once levels of the overexpressed Notch protein fell.
These processes were considered to represent a precursor to cell elongation, interconnections of cells, and eventual tubule formation.
Some elements bear macaronic labels: one which has a name from Greek but a symbol from Latin is antimony (refined as early as 900 C.E. and used, during the Middle Ages, as a powerful precursor to Ex-Lax.
In the present study, we sought to establish which PLD isoform is the endogenous enzyme that generates the choline precursor for ACh synthesis in cholinergic neurons using, as a model, the SN56 basal forebrain cell line.
Further analysis revealed that a 521 base pair region of P. stutzeri ORF-F shares 80% homology with M. tuberculosis moe Z [ 17 ] . The products of the pdt locus probably function by activating, then sulfurating, a carboxylic acid precursor.