Early developmental influences on hepatic organogenesis

Review Crim1–, a regulator of developmental organogenesis

availability and activity is critical during embryogenesis to ensure appropriate organogenesis. This process is regulated through the coordinated expression of growth factors and their cognate receptors, as well as via proteins that can bind, sequester or localize growth factors to distinct locations. One such protein is the transmembrane protein Crim1. This protein has been shown to be express...

Developmental influences on medically unexplained symptoms.

BACKGROUND Medically unexplained (or 'functional') symptoms (MUS) are physical symptoms that prompt the sufferer to seek healthcare but remain unexplained after an appropriate medical evaluation. Examples of MUS also occur in veterinary medicine. For example, domestic cats suffer a syndrome comparable to interstitial cystitis, a chronic pelvic pain syndrome of humans. METHOD Review of current...

Chromosomal Aneuploidies and Early Embryonic Developmental Arrest

Background Selecting the best embryo for transfer, with the highest chance of achieving a vital pregnancy, is a major goal in current in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology. The high rate of embryonic developmental arrest during IVF treatment is one of the limitations in achieving this goal. Chromosomal abnormalities are possibly linked with chromosomal arrest and selection against abnormal fe...

Early influences on taste preferences.

Organogenesis in Cephalopoda: further evidence of blastodisc-bound developmental information.

The basic mechanisms of organ differentiation in the Cephalopod embryo (telolecithal egg, discoidal cleavage) are studied. The results of ligation experiments, performed in early cleavage stages, confirm earlier conclusions of the author, drawn from transplantation/explantation and heat-shock experiments. The developmental information for cellular differentiation is shown to reside in the blast...