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wing and eye imaginal discs (precursors of adult structures) that signals modulating the growth and patterning of one epithelial layer of cells are received through microtubule-based cell extensions arising from the apposing epithelium (Cho et al.
We view the failure to replace primary motor neurons ablated at 13 somite stage as indicating that the time at which a cell can be specified for that fate has passed, either because neighboring precursors have been specified for other fates or because the signals that specify primary motor neurons are no longer present.
In the circulation of normal individuals is a small population of CD34 -mononuclear cells that proliferate rapidly in culture as an adherent population with a variable morphology, display cytoskeletal, cytoplasmic, and surface markers of mesenchymal precursors, and differentiate into several lineages (fibroblasts, osteoblasts, and adipocytes).
We propose that in the zebrafish central nervous system cell-cell interactions, mediated by Delta-Notch signaling, help coordinate transition of proliferative precursors to specified neurons and glia.
There was also granular cytoplasmic expression in endometrial stromal cells (s), precursors of decidual cells, and similar granular staining was observed in smooth muscle cells of late follicular phase myometrium (data not shown).