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The effect of aging on the neural competence of the presumptive ectoderm of the early gastrula, and the effect of aged ectoderm on the differentiation of the still uninvaginated dorsal blastoporal lip at the small yolk-plug stage — representing the trunk organizer — were examined by the sandwich method inCynops pyrrhogaster.
The presumptive ectoderm to be used as reaction system was taken from 0 to 36 h exogastrulae obtained by operation at the early gastrula stage and combined with trunk organizer. In the 0 to 12 h explants typical trunktail structures were formed. With further aging of the presumptive ectoderm a decrease in frequency of spinal cord, notochord, and muscle and a simultaneous increase in frequency of mesenchyme and mesothelium were observed. In the 30 and 36 h explants neural competence had largely disappeared, the frequency of notochord and muscle become very low and their differentiation very poor, whereas the frequency of mesenchyme and mesothelium reached very high levels.
We infer a reciprocal relationship between the induced spinal cord and the differentiation of notochord and muscle, as well as a transformation of notochordal material into mesenchyme and mesothelium under the influence of the aged ectoderm. The mode of action of the trunk organizer in normal development is discussed.
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Ohara, A., Hama, T. The effect of aging on the neural competence of the presumptive ectoderm and the effect of aged ectoderm on the differentiation of the trunk organizer inCynops pyrrhogaster . Wilhelm Roux' Archiv 187, 13–23 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00848163
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