«Discovering a molecular pathway of
endoderm formation was unchartered territory in itself,» said Stainier.
Not exact matches
The researchers found that maternal gdf3 is required for Ndr1 and Ndr2 to signal at the levels necessary to properly induce the
formation of mesoderm and
endoderm cells in early zebrafish embryos.
The researchers came upon their finding serendipitously, after working out the molecular pathway, or succession of genes, that prompt the early - stage
formation of the
endoderm, one of the three layers of cells that form the developing embryo.
3) The co-authors of the role of the
endoderm in heart
formation study, published Developmental Biology, (September) were Jonathan Alexander, Michael Rothenberg, a graduate student in Jun's lab, and Gilbert L. Henry, PhD, of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University.
Novocell scientists pioneered a differentiation process that successfully engineers hES cells into definitive and pancreatic
endoderm cells necessary for pancreas
formation.
Taken together our data support the notion that the reversible and immediate early PrEn state marked by low - level transcription at the Hex locus is biased towards the
formation of extra-embryonic
endoderm.
Moreover, ES cell differentiation in vitro recapitulates events that take place during early embryonic development including the
formation of the three germ layers of ectoderm, mesoderm and
endoderm, and the emergence of endothelial, hematopoietic, cardiac, neuronal and hepatic or pancreatic cells [8], [9].
Analysis of Oct4 protein expression in differentiated Ara - C cultures (DACs) showed a slight increase of Oct4 protein by day four of aggregate
formation (Figure 1C), consistent with previous reports examining Oct4 mRNA dynamics [22] and the finding that primitive
endoderm differentiation is accompanied by a transient increase in Oct4 protein levels [23].