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MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT
Volume 125, Issue 7, Pages 587-600Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2008.04.001
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fate-maps; definitive endoderm; gut; morphogenesis; lateral asymmetry; mouse embryo
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This fate-mapping study reveals that the progenitors of all major parts of the embryonic gut are already present in endoderm of the early-head-fold to early-somite stage (1-9 somites) mouse embryo. The anterior endoderm contributes primarily to the anterior intestinal portal of the early-organogenesis stage ( 16-19 somites) embryo. Endoderm cells around and lateral to the node are allocated to the open midgut'' region of the embryonic gut. The posterior (post-nodal) endoderm contributes not only to the posterior intestinal portal but also the open midgut''. Descendants of the posterior endoderm span a length of the gut from the level of the 3rd-5th somites to the posterior end of the embryonic gut. The formation of the anterior and posterior intestinal portals is accompanied by similar repertoires of morphogenetic tissue movement. We also discovered that cells on contralateral sides of the anterior endoderm are distributed asymmetrically to the dorsal and ventral sides of the anterior intestinal portal, heralding the acquisition of laterality by the embryonic foregut. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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