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anterior +‎ -ize

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anteriorize (third-person singular simple present anteriorizes, present participle anteriorizing, simple past and past participle anteriorized)

  1. To inhibit posteriorization
    • 2015 September 23, “Rdh10a Provides a Conserved Critical Step in the Synthesis of Retinoic Acid during Zebrafish Embryogenesis”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      In support of the latter idea, the work in Xenopus found that Rdh10 mRNA did not produce overt phenotypes alone, but could anteriorize embryos when co-injected with Aldh1a2 mRNA, indicating these two enzymes together are necessary to enhance the production of RA [29 ].

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