Mechanisms of soft palate closure in human embryos
Objectives: The human secondary palate forms between 6-12 weeks of gestation. There has been controversy as to whether palatal shelves in the soft palate join by fusion similar to the hard palate, or whether merging and proliferation of the mesenchyme at the posterior edge of the developing hard pal...
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University of British Columbia
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44902 |