• Here, we uncovered a mechanism of progenitor cell allocation that stems from an incomplete process of epithelial delamination that allows progenitors to coordinate their movement with adjacent extra-embryonic tissues. (elifesciences.org)
  • Several embryonic tissues and organs originate from small sets of progenitor cells. (elifesciences.org)
  • The major theme will be devoted to describe and analyze the plant ecological adaptations, plant growth and anatomy, Animal dissection, structure and function of tissues, plants and animals diversity. (uaeu.ac.ae)
  • Ectoderm is one of three germ layers-groups of cells that coalesce early during the embryonic life of all animals except maybe sponges, and from which organs and tissues form. (asu.edu)
  • This section covers the establishment of neural populations, the inductive influences of surrounding tissues and the sequential generation of neurons establishing the layered structure seen in the brain and spinal cord. (edu.au)
  • The hedgehog signaling pathway is a mechanism that regulates cell growth and differentiation during embryonic development, called embryogenesis, in animals. (asu.edu)
  • Here, we present a quantitative and comprehensive study of the abundance levels of histone PTMs during the differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) using mass spectrometry (MS). We observed dynamic changes of histone PTMs including increased H3K9 methylation levels in agreement with previously reported results. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Role of Otx2 in Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs): Otx2 is an intrinsic determinant required to maintain the ESC metastable state by antagonizing ground state pluripotency and promoting commitment to differentiation. (cnr.it)
  • In Hydra , inhibition of activity of the HyGSK-3 confers characteristics of the head organizer to the body column resulting in the differentiation of ectopic heads and tentacles on the body column [ 11 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Here, we model early human neural tube development using human embryonic stem cells cultured in a microfluidic device. (nature.com)
  • 3D reconstitution of the patterned neural tube from embryonic stem cells. (nature.com)
  • Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are self-renewing, pluripotent cells derived from the inner cell mass (ICM) of a blastocyst [ 1 , 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Variation of Human Neural Stem Cells Generating Organizer States In Vitro before Committing to Cortical Excitatory or Inhibitory Neuronal Fates [2] "Better understanding of the progression of neural stem cells (NSCs) in the developing cerebral cortex is important for modeling neurogenesis and defining the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders. (edu.au)
  • There is an urgent need to update the names of brain stem structures to be consistent with the discovery of rhomobomeric segmentation based on gene expression. (edu.au)
  • Using a WNT-activating gradient, we generated a neural tissue exhibiting progressive caudalization from forebrain to midbrain to hindbrain, including formation of isthmic organizer characteristics. (nature.com)
  • Identification of an Otx gene-dosage dependent mechanism required for patterning of developing brain and proper positioning of midbrain-hindbrain isthmic organizer. (cnr.it)
  • The primitive node (or primitive knot) is the organizer for gastrulation in most amniote embryos. (wikipedia.org)
  • Much of the early patterning of the embryo is orchestrated during gastrulation by signals from a midline structure, known as the primitive streak in chick and mouse embryos. (silverchair.com)
  • Right panels show immunostaining of head organizer cocktail-injected embryos against notochord by MZ15 (dorsal view of the same embryo as shown in the left panel) and somites by 12/101 (lateral view), respectively. (xenbase.org)
  • Gastrulation movements are orchestrated by a small, heterogeneous group of cells with inductive and morphogenetic properties located in the dorsal lip of the blastopore (DBL) of the amphibian gastrula known as the Spemann-Mangold organizer or dorsal organizer. (nature.com)
  • How much does the development of the cerebellum, a midbrain/hindbrain structure, reflect its neuromeric origin as a hindbrain segment? (biomedcentral.com)
  • The most important mistakes are the belief that the pons occupies the upper half of the hindbrain, the failure to recognize the isthmus as the first segment of the hindbrain, and the mistaken inclusion of diencephalic structures in the midbrain. (edu.au)
  • Cell fate studies have revealed that also the overall temporal sequence in which groups of endomesodermal cells internalize along the frog blastopore and amniote primitive streak are surprisingly similar: the first cells that involute around the amphibian blastopore lip in the organizer region, and that immigrate through Hensen's node, contribute to foregut endoderm and prechordal plate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gastrulation then continues along the ventroposterior blastopore lip and posterior streak region, from where cells contribute to ventral and posterior mesoderm. (wikipedia.org)
  • The center of Hensen's node contains a funnel-shaped depression, the primitive pit, where the cells of the epiblast (the upper layer of embryonic cells) initially begin to invaginate. (wikipedia.org)
  • This invagination expands posteriorly into the primitive groove as the cell layers continue to move into the space between the embryonic cells and the yolk. (wikipedia.org)
  • The node cells do not express the composition of organizer-inducing factors present in the posterior marginal zone and in the young streak. (wikipedia.org)
  • Once deep within the embryo, these endodermal cells migrate anteriorly and eventually displace the hypoblast cells, causing the hypoblast cells to be confined to a region in the anterior portion of the area pellucida. (wikipedia.org)
  • This anterior region, the germinal crescent, does not form any embryonic structures, but it does contain the precursors of the germ cells, which later migrate through the blood vessels to the gonads. (wikipedia.org)
  • The ratio Odanacatib (MK-0822) of large vacuolated NCs to small nonvacuolated NP cells in the NP region has long been known to decline with maturity of the human IVD [2]. (bioinbrief.com)
  • Recent lineage tracing studies using Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) and Noto have exhibited that NCs and SNPCs are both derived from the embryonic notochord [13 14 Risbud and Shapiro suggest that the reduction in the number of large vacuolated NCs in adult IVDs is usually associated with a shift in roles of the NCs as they become organizer cells or otherwise. (bioinbrief.com)
  • Cells from this region contribute to the neural tube and the somites, as well as to the notochord. (silverchair.com)
  • The results suggest that NSE immunoreactivity may be a valuable marker for determination of the number of metabolically active neurons in different brain regions after single and repeated experimental seizures. (genscript.com)
  • The role of agrin, Lrp4 and MuSK during dendritic arborization and synaptogenesis in cultured embryonic CNS neurons. (recherche-myologie.fr)
  • Gastrulation is a key event in animal embryogenesis during which germ layer precursors are rearranged and the embryonic axes are established. (nature.com)
  • As early in development as the end of gastrulation, Tctn2 mutants displayed reduced activation of the Hedgehog (HH) pathway in the prechordal plate, the head organizer. (elifesciences.org)
  • Here, we examine this question during the early stages of morphogenesis of the embryonic laterality organ, the first organ to form during vertebrate development, using the zebrafish as a model organism. (elifesciences.org)
  • Here we employ ChIP-seq and RNA-seq approaches in Xenopus tropicalis gastrulae and find that occupancy of the corepressor, TLE/Groucho, is a better indicator of tissue -specific cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) than the coactivator p300 , during early embryonic stages. (xenbase.org)
  • How graded and segmental cues interact in specifying r1 precursors is key to understanding the origins of the cerebellum, a major structure in the higher vertebrate brain. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Here, we summarize how arterial or venous ECs arise during embryonic development. (bvsalud.org)
  • German biologist, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard is renowned for elucidation of the genetic control of embryonic development of fruit flies. (wepapers.com)
  • Throughout this paper I will detail the early career of Dr. Nusslein-Volhard and the ways in which her research helped to revolutionize the field of developmental biology as it pertains to embryonic development and gene analysis/function. (wepapers.com)
  • In these mutants, the prechordal plate, an organizer of anterior head development, displayed defects in HH pathway activation at E8.0. (elifesciences.org)
  • Plant Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3/ SHAGGY-like kinases (GSKs) have been implicated in numerous biological processes ranging from embryonic, flower, stomata development to stress and wound responses. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In Drosophila , a pool of SGG isoenzymes encoded by a single gene is necessary to establish cell fate and polarity within embryonic segments [ 8 ] as well as for development of the nervous system [ 9 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A region, of SOMITE development period, that contains a number of paired arches, each with a mesodermal core lined by ectoderm and endoderm on the two sides. (wakehealth.edu)
  • A multiple alignment of the amino acid sequence across divergent species, identified five previously undescribed, Nogo-A specific conserved regions that may be relevant for development. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This development generates the most complex structure within the embryo and the long time period of development means in utero insult during pregnancy may have consequences to development of the nervous system. (edu.au)
  • As the IVD degenerates it undergoes more significant alterations in structure composition and cellular phenotype with increased catabolism inflammation and neurovascularization [4-8]. (bioinbrief.com)
  • The novel ten-1(et5) allele is a hypomorph since its post-embryonic phenotype is weaker than the null alleles ten-1(ok641) and ten-1(tm651) . (biomedcentral.com)
  • We show that a Gbx2 -positive, Otx2 -/ Hoxa2 -negative territory corresponding to rhombomere 1 forms prior to an identifiable isthmic organiser. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The early designation of an Otx2 -negative, Hoxa2 -negative region, prior to the appearance of the isthmic organiser, is a key initial step in the specification of the cerebellum. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Occupancy of tissue -specific cis-regulatory modules by Otx2 and TLE/Groucho for embryonic head specification. (xenbase.org)
  • Using these devices, Otx2 and other head organizer TFs (for example, Lim1/Lhx1 (activator) or Goosecoid (repressor)) are able to upregulate or downregulate a large battery of target genes in the head organizer . (xenbase.org)
  • As human telencephalic NSCs develop from pluripotency in vitro, they transition through organizer states that spatially pattern the cortex before generating glutamatergic precursor fates. (edu.au)
  • The structure and expression of neuron-specific enolase gene. (genscript.com)
  • Early global overexpression of Hoxa2 at embryonic day 0 has no effect on the expression of isthmic signalling molecules or the allocation of rhombomere 1 territory, but selectively results in the loss of granule cell markers at embryonic day 6 and the depletion of cell bodies from the external granule cell layer. (biomedcentral.com)
  • For example, the hindbrain is a transiently rhombomeric structure organised by segmentally expressed Hox genes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Activates the head organizer gene cer1 by acting synergistically with siamois and mix-A/mix.1 through the 5'-TAATCT-3' element of the cer1 promoter. (xenbase.org)
  • In the first lecture Dr S Galande, NCCS, discussed the third dimension of gene regulation by a global chromatin organizer and transcription factor, SATB1. (ifcbiol.com)
  • Dr M Muenke, NIH, Bethesda, USA, demonstrated that a minimal critical region of ~327 kb within the latrophilin 3 gene was involved in susceptibility to the disease and that a variant confers protection against the disorder. (ifcbiol.com)
  • Cilia are microtubule -based structures that either transmit information into the cell or move fluid outside of the cell. (xenbase.org)
  • FIGURE 1 Structure of cilia . (xenbase.org)
  • f) Image showing basal body and axoneme of motile cilia (g) Image showing cross‐section and the 9 + 2 microtubule structure of motile cilia . (xenbase.org)
  • May play a central role in the initial events of axis formation and in particular in specifying anterior head regions and their spatial relationship with trunk structures. (xenbase.org)
  • Identification of FOXJ1 effectors during ciliogenesis in the foetal respiratory epithelium and embryonic left-right organiser of the mouse. (genscript.com)
  • FIGURE 5 Diagram of a posterior view of the Left-Right organizer and its functions. (xenbase.org)
  • The major theme will be devoted to describe and analyze the molecules of life, light microscopy, fine cell structure and function, cell membranes structure and function, cell division and staining procedures. (uaeu.ac.ae)
  • Develop a biological knowledge base common to contemporary biologists, encompassing microscopy, cell structure, cellular membranes, and nucleic acids biology. (uaeu.ac.ae)
  • Phenotypes of loss- and gain-of-function of head organizer TFs in frogs. (xenbase.org)
  • Microsatellite variation and population genetic structure of Anatolian mountain frogs. (krakow.pl)
  • The intrinsic self-referential dynamism of the "brainmind" originated from REM sleep arousal and then evolved in the resting-state activity of a complex of cortico-limbic midline brain structures (CMS), also called Default Mode Network (DMN). (frontiersin.org)
  • While graded signals from the isthmus have a demonstrable patterning role within this region, the significance of segmental identity for neuronal specification within rhombomere 1 is unexplored. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The regulation of SGG/GSK-3 represents a conserved strategy during evolution for establishing embryonic polarity of both invertebrate and vertebrates. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In higher vertebrates, the arches forms outpouchings and develop into structures of the head and neck. (wakehealth.edu)
  • As part of the transcriptional complex, FLNA CT can also bind to promoter regions of target genes. (encyclopedia.pub)
  • RNA polymerase is the enzyme that transcribes RNA from DNA and binds DNA at promoter regions. (wepapers.com)
  • This would suggest that, despite their different morphology, the amniote primitive streak and the amphibian blastopore are homologous structures, that have evolved from one and the same precursor structure by a continuous sequence of morphological modifications. (wikipedia.org)
  • Imaging studies may be necessary when involvement of deeper structures, such as bone, is clinically suspected. (medscape.com)
  • These sequences represent the protein coding region of the Lrrc23 cDNA ORF which is encoded by the open reading frame (ORF) sequence. (genscript.com)
  • Fry protein is composed of an N-terminal Furry domain (FD) with HEAT/Armadillo repeats followed by five regions without any recognizable functional domains. (nature.com)
  • The N-terminal region of centrosomal protein 290 (CEP290) restores vision in a zebrafish model of human blindness. (xenbase.org)
  • Dr Somdatta Sinha, CCMB, gave a clear account highlighting protein modeling as a means to understanding structure and function. (ifcbiol.com)
  • Here we describe the 3.2 Å cryo-EM structure of human DEC-205, thereby illuminating the structure of the mannose receptor protein family. (uci.edu)
  • Odanacatib (MK-0822) NCs contribute to the gelatinous nature of the healthy IVD via their high biosynthesis rates and also because their complex cytoplasmic and vacuolated structure is believed to have osmoregulatory functions [10 11 The function and disappearance of NCs during growth and aging are unclear. (bioinbrief.com)
  • Discuss animal diversity, structure and function particularly those regulating the animal life and homeostasis. (uaeu.ac.ae)
  • Acetylcholine receptors in the equatorial region of intrafusal muscle fibres modulate mouse muscle spindle sensitivity. (recherche-myologie.fr)
  • The "unnatural selection" pressure of hunting and war creates circumstances in which tuskless elephants are more likely to survive, breed, and pass on the genes for missing lateral incisors in regions where intense hunting or poaching has occurred. (jaromirstetina.cz)
  • These hinge regions are proteolyzed by calpain and separate 24 Ig repeats into the rod 1 domain, which comprises 1-15 Ig repeats, rod 2 comprising 16-23 Ig repeats and a dimerization domain [ 4 ] [ 5 ] . (encyclopedia.pub)
  • The hinge regions are proteolyzed by Ca 2+ -dependent calpains, and the cleavage of these sites produces a 90 kDa C -terminal fragment of FLNA (FLNA CT ) and a 200 kDa N -terminal fragment (FLNA NT ) [ 6 ] . (encyclopedia.pub)
  • The common bile and stensen s the basal parts of the temporal hones are the two embryonic life. (wildwoodclinic.com)
  • The mammalian telencephalon, which comprises the cerebral cortex, olfactory bulb, hippocampus, basal ganglia (striatum and globus pallidum), and amygdala, is a highly complex and evolutionarily advanced brain structure. (intechopen.com)
  • By contrast, a subset of coextensive nuclei is refractory to ectopic Hoxa2 and is presumably induced solely by isthmic organiser activity. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Only starting from this "anoetic" feeling-state, the deep imaginal creative and re-structuring self-referential activity may be reactivated by a process of spontaneous imagination. (frontiersin.org)
  • RhoA activity results in the assembly of myosin II and anti-parallel actin filaments into the structure of the contractile ring. (jove.com)
  • Region of the inferior pore - an interval being o. 180, as far more than the supenor postcepirai base a complex structure. (wildwoodclinic.com)
  • Explain the relationship between plant structure and some of the main functions. (uaeu.ac.ae)