Epithelium--The Primary Building Block for Metazoan Complexity
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Epithelium--the primary building block for metazoan complexity.
In simplest terms, the complexity of the metazoan body arises through various combinations of but two tissue types: epithelium and mesenchyme. Through mutual inductions and interactions, these tissues produce all of the organs of the body. Of the two, epithelium must be considered the default type in the Eumetazoa because it arises first in embryonic development and because mesenchyme arises fr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Integrative and Comparative Biology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1540-7063,1557-7023
DOI: 10.1093/icb/43.1.55