Origin of cholinesterase-containing follicle cells and parafollicular cells of the developing thyroid gland in the rat |
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Authors: | S Kirkeby P Rømert J Gauguin |
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Institution: | (1) Anatomy Department C, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark |
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Abstract: | Summary The location of cholinesterase-containing cells in the thyroid gland and its precursors (median thyroid primordium and ultimobranchial bodies) has been investigated light-microscopically in rat embryos from the 13 to the 20th day of gestation.From the 13th to the 16th day of gestation the median thyroid primordium and the ultimobranchial bodies are distinct from each other. Cholinesterase-containing cells are found in both. On the 17th–18th day of gestation the reacting ultimobranchial cells spread into the median thyroid primordium where they take up a parafollicular position. At the 19th–20th day of gestation the distribution of cholinesterase-containing cells is as in the adult rat. The results seem to show that cholinesterase-containing follicular cells derive from the median thyroid primordium and cholinesterase-containing parafollicular cells from the ultimobranchial body. |
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