Pourquié Lab uncovers mechanism contributing to appropriate formation of the spine
... examining these diverse species, we discovered that the same process ended somite formation in each," said Olivier Pourqui, Ph.D., Investigator and senior ... "What influenced the number of somites in each species was the rate of somite formation. In snake embryos, somites form much more quickly than in the ...Study reveals how stem cells decide to become either skeletal or smooth muscle
... and tracking studies and found that myocardin is expressed briefly in the somite during development in mice, but then disappears from that region of the ... to form blood vessels. Myocardin then quickly shuts off, allowing the somite to continue differentiating into skeletal muscle. If it did not, then ...Pourquié lab links beta-catenin gradient to process of somite formation
... of the Wnt-signaling pathway in the process of somite formation. The work has been published on the Web ... imaging technology. The team analyzed the somite segmentation process that results in the ... of the Wnt-signaling pathway, in the process of somite formation. They showed that a newly identified ...