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. 2019 Jul 22;10:3257. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11136-6

Fig. 7.

Fig. 7

Wnt controls TGF-β signaling. β-catenin OE animals exhibit constitutively activated Wnt signaling, leading to the formation of multiple heads and axes. a Multiple head phenotype can be rescued with a 28 day treatment of 2 µM K02288 leading to animals with a single axis and one head. Scale bar = 2 mm. b Treatment of β-catenin OE Hydra polyps reduces the number of heads per polyp compared to DMSO treated controls. Boxplots show median (horizontal line), upper and lower quantile (box), lower and upper 1.5 times interquartile range (whiskers), and outliers (points). n = 12 polyps (day 0), 33 polyps (DMSO, day 20), 70 polyps (K02288, day 20), ***p ≤ 0.001, U-test. c Low concentration ALP treatment (10 nM) reduces the number of epithelial cells per polyp, compared to DMSO treated controls. Simultaneous treatment with 2 µM LDN-193189 rescued the ALP induced small phenotype and polyps grew to larger sizes compared to the control treatment. n = 39 samples (DMSO), 36 samples (ALP), 22 samples (ALP + LDN193189), **p ≤ 0.01 ***p ≤ 0.001, U-test + FDR-correction