hypoblast
Americannoun
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the endoderm.
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the cells entering into the inner layer of a young gastrula, capable of becoming endoderm and, to a certain extent, mesoderm.
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Also called: endoblast. embryol the inner layer of an embryo at an early stage of development that becomes the endoderm at gastrulation
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a less common name for endoderm
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The paper is entitled 'Naive pluripotent stem cell-based models capture FGF-dependent human hypoblast lineage specification' and is published in Cell Stem Cell.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2024
The key discovery, published in Cell Stem Cell, is pinpointing a critical signal that acts during a short window of time, less than one day, to trigger cells to become hypoblast.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2024
They designed stem cell models to study formation of yolk sac founders, called hypoblast.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2024
The first layer is the endoderm, a sheet of cells that displaces the hypoblast and lies adjacent to the yolk sac.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The hypoblast is the lining of the intestine and of the glands which open into it; and the material of the notochord is also regarded, as hypoblast.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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