Cellular polarity in cultured animal pole cells of Xenopus embryos |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Ophthalmology, Ningbo No.2 Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315010, China;2. Department of Ophthalmology, Yuyao Maternity And Child Health Care Hospital, Yuyao, Zhejiang 315400, China;1. The Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan;2. Department of Pathology, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata Hospital, Osaka, Japan;3. Department of Surgery, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan;1. Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22511, Egypt;2. Laboratory of Life science frontiers, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, 53 Kawahara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan;3. Anatomy and Embryology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21944, Egypt;4. Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sadat City Sadat City 32897, Egypt |
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| Abstract: | The expression of intracellular and surface polarity in cultured animal pole cells of Xenopus embryos (stages 6, 8, and 10) was examined morphologically and immunocytochemically. When control embryos reached stage 23, daughter cells derived from a single or a few animal pole cells formed aggregates. Outer cells of the aggregates displayed intracellular and surface polarity and expressed an epidermis-specific antigen (XEPI-1) on the apical surface circumference, while these characteristics had not yet been established in the animal pole cells at the time of isolation. However, inner cells of the aggregates did not display the cellular polarity along an outer-inner axis of the aggregates and displayed the antigen randomly within the aggregates. These results indicate that the expression of cellular polarity in epidermal differentiation of Xenopus embryos in vitro depends on the position within the aggregates formed by daughter cells derived from isolated animal pole cells. |
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