Article
Avian scale development. XIII. Epidermal germinative cells are committed to appendage-specific differentiation and respond to patterned cues in the dermis.
Developmental biology - 1 Apr 1991
Zeltinger J, Sawyer R H
Abstract excerpt
The ability of the germinative cell population of scutate scale epidermis to continue to generate cells that undergo their appendage-specific differentiation (beta stratum formation), when associated with foreign dermis, was examined. Tissue recombination experiments were carried out which placed anterior metatarsal epidermis (scutate scale forming region) from normal 15-day chick embryos with either the anterior...
Topics
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Chick Embryo
- Embryonic Induction
- Epidermal Cells
- Epidermis
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Keratins
- Mutation
- Skin