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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
mesendoderm .
Etymologies
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mesendoderm + -al
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Examples
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Gastrulation in the fish involves several morphogenetic movements, such as involution of mesendodermal regions and dorsal convergence
Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes 1995
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Furthermore, the extra Wnt caused the Wnt-responsive cells to differentiate primarily into mesendodermal precursors (which can become either mesoderm or endoderm and is associated with the posterior of the embryo) and inhibited the formation of neurectoderm (ectoderm destined to become cells of the nervous system that are mostly associated with the embryo's anterior).
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