Embryonic origin of hemocytes and their relationship to cell death in Drosophila.

doi:10.1242/dev.120.7.1829

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Embryonic origin of hemocytes and their relationship to cell death in Drosophila.

Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Jul 1994

Tepass U, Fessler L I, Aziz A, Hartenstein V

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We have studied the embryonic development of Drosophila hemocytes and their conversion into macrophages. Hemocytes derive exclusively from the mesoderm of the head and disperse along several invariant migratory paths throughout the embryo. The origin of hemocytes from the head mesoderm is further...

Topics

Animals
Apoptosis
Drosophila
Hemocytes
Immunohistochemistry
Macrophages
Mesoderm
Mutation

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