That we have observed a direct contribution of ES cells to both visceral and parietal
endoderm also has implications for canonical definitions of pluripotency.
Not exact matches
To investigate whether maternally supplied gdf3 mRNA
also plays a role in left - right patterning, the researchers used a series of experimental tricks to supply embryos with enough Gdf3 protein to form the mesoderm and
endoderm and survive until the later stages of embryonic development.
But then Stainier and colleagues showed that the
endoderm was
also somehow responsible for the migration of the heart cell buds in the layer of cells above it, known as the mesoderm.
He is
also the lead inventor of many of the Company's key patents, including those encompassing definitive
endoderm and
San Diego, CA (March 31, 2009)-- Novocell, Inc., a stem cell engineering company, today announced that it has received U.S. Patent 7,510,876 with claims covering human definitive
endoderm cells, an essential cell for generating not only pancreatic type cells, which Novocell is developing for use as a cell therapy for diabetes, but
also other
endoderm lineage - derived tissues and organs such as lungs, intestine, liver, thymus and thyroid.