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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
Abstract excerpt
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 supported by the finding that in Bicaudal D, a mutation that lacks all head structures, and in twist snail double...
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