Medical Definition of Zone of polarizing activity
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The small group of mesenchyme cells in avian limb buds that is located at the posterior margin of the developing bud and that produces a substance, possibly retinoic acid, that provides positional information to the developing limb bud.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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