Methods for making bits of brainlike tissue tap the innate tendency of human pluripotent stem cells to
form neural tissue.
Not exact matches
Days 21 - 23: A furrow of
tissue that gives rise to the brain and spinal cord has now begun to fold together,
forming the
neural tube.
As development proceeds,
neural crest cells break away, migrating from head to toe to
form tissues involved in pigmentation, muscles, teeth, bone, cartilage, and adrenal glands, which produce stress hormones as well as testosterone.
While both eye fields and EFTF - expressing pluripotent cells generated epidermis, forebrain, and olfactory
tissue when grafted to the anterior
neural plate, transplanted eye fields also
formed muscle and head mesenchyme (Figure 4 and unpublished data).