This unsung rodent's tale has inspired "The Tooth Mouse".
Then they must bring the Tooth Mouse a silver coin — without resorting to thievery.
The story concerns the reigning Tooth Mouse, who is getting ready to retire from the job.
Leading the three mice to a secret underground chamber, the Tooth Mouse, who looks like a widowed school maîtresse, complete with finely carved cane and bifocals, presents a wall of names and addresses.
"Bon soir," the Tooth Mouse begins, in one of the text's smattering of French phrases, before introducing a contest to name her successor before a crowd of assembled mice.
We cloned three genes, eda, edar and wnt7b, with antagonistic effects on shh in the initiation of mouse teeth, mouse hair follicles and chick feathers [ 9, 30, 43- 50].
While slight differences exist in term of gene expression profiles in the developing tooth between mouse and human [ 22, 23], the fact that both mouse and human embryonic dental mesenchyme can equally induce tooth formation when recombined with human epithelial cells [ 19– 24] 24] suggests a similar constitution of tooth-inducing signals.
The thousands were not there — only fifty or so old volumes, some torn, some ragged and zigzagged by the teeth of mice or rats, some without covers.
Again, we feel the blow coming well in advance as Highly lays out his treasure: "50 or so old volumes, some torn, some ragged and zigzagged by the teeth of mice or rats, some without covers".
Now, scientists have uncovered the molecular mechanism responsible for maintaining the ultrasharp teeth of mice.
