mesoderm

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Recent experiments indicate that most of the positional information for the paraxial mesoderm is encoded during the initial steps of its development in the presomitic mesoderm, although it is only decoded later during differentiation of the somites.

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  1. noun The middle embryonic germ layer, lying between the ectoderm and the endoderm, from which connective tissue, muscle, bone, and the urogenital and circulatory systems develop.

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  • MSCs are mesoderm-derived cells, primarily resident in adult bone marrow, which can generate functional neuronal cells. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Sarcoma of soft parts - extensive group of the malignant new growths occurring from primitive embryonic mesoderm (an average germinal leaf). —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Thus, similar to its regulatory properties in ectopic Pmar1-mediated induction, normal vegetal activation of the secondary mesoderm (pigment cell) - GRN does not require ActivinB or ALK4 / 5 / 7 function. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • Recent studies in which ActivinB was knocked down with MOs in amphibian embryos suggest that it does play some role in axial mesoderm formation, possibly by regulating convergent extension movements of gastrulation through the activities of other mesoderm-inducing factors —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • Sweet HC, Gehring MC, Ettensohn CA (2002) LvDelta is a mesoderm-inducing signal in the sea urchin embryo and can endow blastomeres with organizer-like properties. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
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  1. from Greek μέσος, middle, + δέρμα, skin.
 

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/ˈmɛsədərm/
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