How does a single cell know when the liver has reached its correct size?

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Published in PLoS One on April 01, 2014

Authors

Nadine Hohmann1, Wei Weiwei2, Uta Dahmen2, Olaf Dirsch3, Andreas Deutsch1, Anja Voss-Böhme1

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
2: Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany.
3: Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany.

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