The onset of germ cell migration in the mouse embryo |
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Authors: | Anderson R Copeland T K Schöler H Heasman J Wylie C |
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Affiliation: | Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455, USA. |
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Abstract: | Mouse primordial germ cells (PGCs) are specified between embryonic day 6.5 (E6.5) and E7.5, when they have been visualized as an alkaline phosphatase-positive (AP+) cell population in the developing allantois. By E8.5, they are embedded in the hind-gut epithelium. Previous experiments have suggested different sites for PGCs' origin, and it is unclear how they reach the gut epithelium. We have used transgenic mice expressing GFP under a truncated Oct4 promoter to visualize living PGCs. We find GFP+/AP+ cells in the posterior end of the primitive streak as a dispersed population of cells actively migrating into the allantois, and directly into the adjacent embryonic endoderm. Time-lapse analysis shows these cells to be actively migratory from the time they exit the primitive streak. |
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