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emporal expression pattern during early development. The messenger RNA
is present from the mid-gastrulation through embryo development. It i
s expressed in different neural crest cell populations, during their m
igration and differentiation. This pattern, unexpected for an adhesion
molecule, reinforces the idea of novel functions for type II cadherin
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