For example, in Xenopus, mesoderm tissue undergoing convergent extension consists of a bilayer of cells sandwiched between two layers of the extracellular matrix component fibronectin, allowing ...

Early skate embryo, with the different embryonic tissues segmented and false-colored ... is yellow, the paraxial mesoderm (future vertebrae and trunk muscles) is magenta, the lateral mesoderm ...

Among the tissues forming the head, the musculature has raised many questions. This musculature originates from the mesoderm, ...

Embryonic stem cells in culture are capable of self-renewal without differentiation and are able to differentiate into all cell types of the endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm lineages using ...