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Many, if not all, cells in the body can show motile activity when placed in a permissive environment. Cells held in an apparently immutable array in the intact body will nonetheless exhibit some sort of motile behavior when disaggregated and placed in culture. It is clear, therefore, that all cells possess or can make the machinery for cell movement. However, few cells actively move in the adult body; the phase of the life cycle during which large scale cell and tissue movements take place is during embryonic development. These movements result in the correct tissue architecture of the embryonic body becoming established.
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Wylie, C.C., Stott, D., Donovan, P.J. (1986). Primordial Germ Cell Migration. In: Browder, L.W. (eds) The Cellular Basis of Morphogenesis. Developmental Biology, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2141-5_11
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