SPICULE FORMATION IN VITRO BY THE DESCENDANTS OF PRECOCIOUS MICROMERE FORMED AT THE 8‐CELL STAGE OF SEA URCHIN EMBRYO *
SPICULE FORMATION IN VITRO BY THE DESCENDANTS OF PRECOCIOUS MICROMERE FORMED AT THE 8‐CELL STAGE OF SEA URCHIN EMBRYO *
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海胆胚胎 8 细胞阶段形成的早熟微粒后代在体外形成针状体 *
DOI:
10.1111/j.1440-169x.1980.00265.x
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发表时间:
1980
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影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
K. Okazaki
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作者:
T. Kitajima;K. Okazaki
The micromeres at the 16‐cell stage of sea urchin embryo have already been endowed with a faculty to self‐differentiate into spicule‐forming cells (11). The present experiment was designed to test whether the factor(s) necessary for such self‐differentiation had already been localized at the 8‐cell stage in an area corresponding to the presumptive micromere region in Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus. Since the blastomeres at the 8‐cell stage are all equal in size in normal embryo, unequal 3rd cleavage, by which small blastomeres are pinched off toward the vegetal pole (precocious micromeres), was experimentally induced either by treatment with 4NQO (4‐nitroquinoline‐1‐oxide) at the 2‐cell stage or by continuous culture in Ca‐free sea water. The precocious micromeres were cultured in vitro in natural sea water containing horse serum.