New discovery: The journey of WNT5A across the developing brain in mice and men
Alena Salasova, a postdoc in Anders Nykjær's group, is co-author of new article published in Nature Communications on April 2 . The paper entitled "WNT5A is transported via lipoprotein particles in the cerebrospinal fluid to regulate hindbrain morphogenesis" describes a novel mechanism of how is a key morphogen WNT5A secreted from choroid plexus in developing hindbrain, and subsequently transported across long distances via cerebralspinal fluid towards the responsive progenitor cells.