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Body Patterning

"Body Patterning" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The processes occurring in early development that direct morphogenesis. They specify the body plan ensuring that cells will proceed to differentiate, grow, and diversify in size and shape at the correct relative positions. Included are axial patterning, segmentation, compartment specification, limb position, organ boundary patterning, blood vessel patterning, etc.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Body Patterning" by people in this website by year, and whether "Body Patterning" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 23 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2006 and 2007
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