The membranous skeleton: the role of cell condensations in vertebrate skeletogenesis.

doi:10.1007/BF00174948

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The membranous skeleton: the role of cell condensations in vertebrate skeletogenesis.

Anatomy and embryology - 1 Jul 1992

Hall B K, Miyake T

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Elements of the vertebrate skeleton are initiated as cell condensations, collectively termed the 'membranous skeleton' whether cartilages or bones by Grüneberg (1963). Condensations, which were identified as the basic cellular units in a recent model of morphological change in development and evo...

Topics

Animals
Cartilage
Cell Differentiation
Chick Embryo
Gene Expression Regulation
Mice
Mutation
Osteogenesis
Sclera
Stem Cells
Vertebrates

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