Paired box protein Pax-7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PAX7 gene.
Paired box protein Pax-7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PAX7 gene.
== Function == Pax-7 plays a role in neural crest development and gastrulation, and it is an important factor in the expression of neural crest markers such as Slug, Sox9, Sox10 and HNK-1. PAX7 is expressed in the palatal shelf of the maxilla, Meckel's cartilage, mesencephalon, nasal cavity, nasal epithelium, nasal capsule and pons.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).