Embryonic chicken gizzard: immunolocalization of collagen and smooth muscle myosin |
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Authors: | Elke R. Paul Truc Linh Vo Andreas Meyer Ute Gröschel-Stewart |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institut für Zoologie, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstrasse 10, W-6100 Darmstadt, Federal Republic of Germany |
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Abstract: | Summary Antibodies to chicken gizzard myosin and to chicken skin collagen type I allow the myofibrillar and connective tissue development in the embryonic chicken gizzard to be followed. Fibroblasts are assumed to synthesize collagen prior to the onset of smooth muscle cell development in the muscle primordium (day 5); they are presumably also responsible for collagen synthesis close to the presumptive lamina propria and in the developing tubular glands (day 14 to 17). From day 6 to 8, myosin and collagen are colocalized intracellularly, and from day 9 onward collagen fibers start to appear extracellularly, eventually forming the trellis-like connective tissue septa that give the rhomboid profile found in the adult muscle. The close association of collagen and myosin in early development suggests that the muscle cells themselves produce and export collagen. |
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Keywords: | Gizzard Embryo Collagen Myosin Antibodies Chicken |
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