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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They designed stem cell models to study formation of yolk sac founders, called hypoblast.
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
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 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 blastosphere of the frog is like what the blastosphere of amphioxus would be, if the future hypoblast cells were enormously larger through their protoplasm being diluted with yolk.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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