It is based on the definitive books of
mouse embryonic development by Theiler (1989) and Kaufman (1992) yet extends these studies by creating a series of three dimensional computer models of mouse embryos at successive stages of development with defined anatomical domains linked by a stage - by - stage ontology of anatomical names.
The aorta - gonad - mesonephros (AGM) region in the aortic wall appears to be the most important source of new blood cells, and it has been found to contain numerous hematopoietic stem cells by day 11 of
mouse embryonic development.
Because bat experts think that the ancestor of all bats was a small mammal with short forelimbs like that of the mouse, the researchers next compared bat and
mouse embryonic development.
The scientists rescued the microcephaly during
mouse embryonic development by removing a protein that caused the loss of stem cells.
Not exact matches
«Our research on
mice and rats shows that these chemicals affect the
embryonic development of these animals.
The huntingtin gene is essential for
embryonic development, and scientists have already shown that if
mouse embryos don't have it at conception, they die in utero.
For this study, Guttridge, first author David J. Wang, who developed many of the study's concepts, and their colleagues monitored NF - kB activity during tumor
development using
mouse embryonic fibroblasts and two
mouse models.
During
embryonic development of
mice, however, the situation is different: To build up the system, all mature blood and immune cells develop much more rapidly and almost completely from stem cells.
«Indeed, when we studied the
mice at the
embryonic stage, we saw the cells between the muscle fibers expanded explosively and formed tumors early in
development,» Hatley said.
Early in
embryonic development, both
mouse and human placentas rely on the same set of ancient cell - growth genes.
Mouse embryonic stem cells, reported in 1981 by Martin Evans, Matthew Kaufman, and Gail Martin, have allowed scientists to generate genetically customized strains of
mice that have revolutionized studies of organismic
development and immunity and have provided countless models of human disease.
«Observing the changes in the architecture of islets during
embryonic development in
mice and in pseudoislets — a model we generated in our lab — was also very interesting.
Manuel Eguren has analysed the biological consequences of Cdh1 elimination in rapidly dividing cells, as part of his doctoral research project in Malumbres's group; he focused on progenitors from the nervous system during
embryonic development in
mice.
All of the
mice produced normal amounts of SOX2 during
development, when the transcription factor plays a critical role in the genesis of
embryonic and neural stem cells.
«We studied how the Sox2 gene is turned on in
mice, and found the region of the genome that is needed to turn the gene on in
embryonic stem cells,» said Professor Jennifer Mitchell of U of T's Department of Cell and Systems Biology, lead invesigator of a study published in the December 15 issue of Genes &
Development.
To fill that gap, the researchers used
mice to study the genetics behind
embryonic development of the stomach.
What we do know is that in
mice (and so, presumably, in humans) FOXP2 is active in the brain during
embryonic development.
Animals as varied as grasshoppers and
mice build their bodies by assembling repetitive pieces during
embryonic development.
The next step, he says, is to investigate how
embryonic mouse brains with induced folds develop as they mature past the fetal stages of
development and to look across species to see if the gene has similar effects in other mammals.
To find out what these genes do, and which ones are master regulators of
development, researchers have several approaches, including deactivating
embryonic genes in
mice.
They accomplished this by using
mouse embryonic stem cells to manipulate the
mouse genome at the very start of
development.
As described in the journal Genes &
Development, the researchers identified a new pathway controlling heterochromatin organisation in
mouse embryonic stem cells.
In addition, this is not the only case in which the regulatory circuits that control early
embryonic development in humans show greater similarity to those employed in bovine embryos than to those that operate in the
mouse system.
The dynamin - related GTPase Drp1 is required for
embryonic and brain
development in
mice.
A second method involves introducing the transgenic DNA into
embryonic stem cells (ES cells) derived from a
mouse embryo at the very early stages of
development.
Anita Bledau (Anastassiadis, TUD)-- «SET Histone methyltransferases in
mouse embryonic stem cells and mammalian
development» (2011)
Correspondingly, endothelial - specific deletion of Tie2 using Ve - cad - Cre driver
mice, pursued in validating the Tie2fl / fl
mice used in this study, essentially phenocopied the global Tie2 KO phenotype with
embryonic lethality around E10.5 (Supplementary Fig. 13), confirming the key role of endothelial Tie2 during
embryonic development.
Professor Martinez - Arias and colleagues, supported by the European Research Council and the Wellcome Trust, have reconstructed these early stages of
development using
mouse embryonic stem cells.
Brca1 is required for
embryonic development of the
mouse cerebral cortex to normal size by preventing apoptosis of early neural progenitors.
A switch has been discovered that instructs blood vessel cells to become blood stem cells during
embryonic development in
mice.
Mouse brain tissue from three different stages of the mouse brain development; embryonic day 15, postnatal day 2 and postnatal day 21, was stu
Mouse brain tissue from three different stages of the
mouse brain development; embryonic day 15, postnatal day 2 and postnatal day 21, was stu
mouse brain
development;
embryonic day 15, postnatal day 2 and postnatal day 21, was studied.
Most Alkbh1 deficient
mice die during
embryonic development, and survivors are characterized by defects in tissues originating from the ectodermal lineage.
In this study, the team delved deep into the nucleus of cells belonging to
mouse and zebrafish embryos — two important animal models of
embryonic development — in order to determine how the Dll4 gene is turned on.
In view of the different timing of meiotic initiation in female and male mammals, we determined the developmental expression profile of
mouse Boule during both male and female
embryonic gonadal
development (
embryonic day 10.5, E12.5, E16.5 and E17.5) in comparison with adult gonads.
RT - PCR analysis of RNA from
mouse embryonic and adult gonads using primers corresponding to either exons 3 and 9 (upper panel, 501 - bp band) or exons 3 and 12 (lower panel, 847 - bp and 712 - bp bands) reveals that full - length Bol1 is only expressed in postnatal testes, while Bol2 lacking exon 11 is also detectable at low levels throughout gonadal
development in addition to its high adult testis expression.
Furthermore, the requirement of
mouse Boule for male reproduction and its dispensability for female fertility suggests that low level expression of Boule in
embryonic germ cells and adult ovaries is not essential for either the
development of germ cells or the production of female gametes.
W. L. Leung, S. Y. Y. Wong, D. Chan, P. P. L. Tam, K. S. E. Cheah, Loss of procollagen IIA from the anterior mesendoderm disrupts the
development of
mouse embryonic forebrain.
We show that DONSON is expressed in progenitor cells of
embryonic human brain and other proliferating tissues, is co-expressed with components of the DNA replication machinery, and that Donson is essential for early
embryonic development in
mice as well, suggesting an essential conserved role for DONSON in the cell cycle.
It'll be tough for us not to continue down this road, in spite of some serious ethical questions, when most of what we know about human
embryonic development comes from studying frogs, fish, chickens and
mice.
96/3: 45 RNF12 is essential for X-inactivation in female
mouse embryonic stem cells, is required for female
mouse development, and might be a target for future therapies to treat X-linked disorders in females: Evidence from a
mouse knockout model.
These genes normally guide
embryonic heart
development; however, in the adult
mice hearts, they helped transform non-beating cells that form scar tissue into beating heart muscle cells.
It shows a
mouse at
embryonic day 10.5 and the expression of the Fezf2 gene in the developing cortical vesicles (in blue) at the start of brain
development.
Mouse fetal
development is perturbed by culture in low oxygen concentration that increases expression of oxygen - sensitive genes via hypoxia inducible factors: A non-epigenetic
embryonic programming phenomenon?