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In order to differentiate the cells into mesenchymal precursors, the stem cell lines were cocultured with mouse feeder cells to produce five different polyclonal lines.
They were not necessarily gang members, but they can be considered the precursors of present-day cholas.
The siRNAs are incorporated into a macromolecular complex which carries out degradation of homologous RNA sequences [ 14 ] . Dicer action serves to inhibit viral infection and retroposon movement, and also plays a role in developmental pathways by cleaving precursors to small regulatory RNAs (reviewed in [ 14 15 ] ). The predicted sequence of the mouse Dicer polypeptide exhibits a single dsRBM and tandem catalytic domains.
These observations support the idea that Delta-Notch mediated lateral inhibition coordinates transition of proliferative neural precursors into specified neurons and glia of the spinal cord.
Additional insights have been gained by utilizing cultures of postnatal cerebellar neuron precursors [ 2 ] . These studies have shown that Hh patterns the cerebellum by promoting proliferation of the granule neuron precursors.