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Amphibian Gastrulation: The Molecular Bases of Mesodermal Cell Migration in Urodele Embryos

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Gastrulation

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Abstract

During the early developmental period of the vertebrate embryo, called gastrulation, changes in cell shape, cell number, and cell-cell associations produce fundamental changes in embryonic morphology. Selected populations of cells are designated to perform particular ensembles of cell movements. Typically, morphogenetic cell movements are regulated in a repeatable pattern from embryo to embryo. These morphogenetic cell movements lead to the organization of an embryo with three primary germ layers: ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. It is difficult enough to understand how cells move from one location to another inside the embryo but even more mysterious why they choose one particular pathway for this locomotion from among the large number of pathways theoretically available to them.

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    Jean-Claude Boucaut, Thierry Darribère, De Li Shi, Jean-Francois Riou & Michel Delarue

  2. Department of Anatomy, The George Washington University Medical Center, 2300 I Street N.W., Washington, DC, 20037, USA

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Boucaut, JC., Darribère, T., Shi, D.L., Riou, JF., Johnson, K.E., Delarue, M. (1991). Amphibian Gastrulation: The Molecular Bases of Mesodermal Cell Migration in Urodele Embryos. In: Keller, R., Clark, W.H., Griffin, F. (eds) Gastrulation. Bodega Marine Laboratory Marine Science Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6027-8_10

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