Medical Definition of Inducer cell
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| Cells that induce other nearby cells to differentiate in specified pathways. Perhaps the distinction should be made, as of old, between those cells that evoke a predetermined pathway of differentiation in the target cells and those cells that can actually induce new and unexpected differentiations.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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