Organizers in development /
Organizers in Development, Volume 157 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as The organizer: what it meant, and means, to developmental biology, Organizers/signaling regions th...
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Academic Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Current topics in developmental biology ;
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface: Hans Spemann, Hilde Mangold and the 'organizer'
- References
- Chapter One: The organizer: What it meant, and still means, to developmental biology
- 1 What did Spemann and his colleagues believe in 1921-22?
- 2 What was the view in the 1930s?
- 3 Evocation and individuation
- 4 Neural and mesodermal inducers
- 5 The two gradient models
- 6 Later results
- 7 Mesoderm induction
- 8 The re-emergence of experimental embryology in a "modern" guise
- 9 The second gold rush
- 9.1 Polarization of the fertilized egg
- 9.2 Mesoderm induction
- 9.3 Neuralization/dorsalization
- 9.4 Antero-posterior patterning
- 10 How we should understand the organizer today
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Two: The organizer and neural induction in birds and mammals
- 1 Historical introduction
- 2 Hensen's node ("the node")
- 2.1 Cellular composition of the node
- 3 Neural induction: spatial and temporal aspects
- 4 Molecular mechanisms of neural induction
- 5 The organizer and "dorso-ventral" (axial-lateral) patterning
- 6 Neural induction and rostro-caudal (anterior-posterior) patterning: how many organizers?
- 7 Is neural induction by a grafted organizer comparable to normal neural plate development?
- 8 Neural induction in vivo and in vitro
- 9 Are the mechanisms of neural induction in amniotes different from those in anamniotes?
- References
- Chapter Three: Tissues and signals with true organizer properties in craniofacial development
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Neural crest cells contain craniofacial patterning information, but do they have organizer properties?
- 3 Foregut endoderm is an organizer in facial patterning
- 4 Nasal placodes as craniofacial organizers
- 5 Frontonasal mass epithelial zone a potential facial organizer
- 6 Signals with craniofacial organizer properties
- 6.1 Sonic Hedgehog and Fibroblast growth factor
- 6.2 Noggin and retinoic acid
- 6.3 Endothelin
- 7 Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Four: Organizing activities of axial mesoderm
- 1 The embryonic organizer, neural induction and secondary organizers
- 2 The role of axial mesoderm in the chick
- 2.1 Chick axial mesoderm development
- 2.2 Young head process mesoderm and its derivatives stabilize anterior neural fate
- 2.3 Chick prechordal mesoderm/mesendoderm acts as a local organizer along the A-P and D-V axes
- 2.4 Young head process mesoderm promotes morphogenesis
- 2.5 Chick notochord acts as a local organizer, potentially influencing all three axes
- 3 The role of axial mesoderm in Xenopus and zebrafish
- 3.1 Axial mesoderm development in Xenopus and zebrafish
- 3.2 In Xenopus and zebrafish, prechordal mesoderm/mesendoderm maintains A-P regional identity