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Blastomere Explants to Test for Cell Fate Commitment During Embryonic Development
Published on: January 26, 2013
血管芽細胞のコミットメントは,マウス胚の原始的なストライクで開始されます
Tara L Huber1, Valerie Kouskoff, H Joerg Fehling
1Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, New York 10029, USA.
Nature
|December 4, 2004
まとめ
研究者らは,血液と血管細胞の共通の祖先である胚由来ヘマンジオブラストを,ガストルーレーションするマウスの胚で特定した. 初期の発達に不可欠なこれらの細胞は,特定の遺伝子を発現し,後部原始線で発生します.
科学分野:
- 発達生物学 発達生物学とは
- 幹細胞生物学 幹細胞生物学
- 血液学 ヘマトロジ
背景:
- 血液形成細胞 (血液) と血管細胞 (血管) の共通の祖先として,血液形成細胞が仮定されています.
- 胚性幹細胞 (ES) 研究では,双重の可能性を持つブラストコロニー形成細胞 (BL-CFCs) を特定し,血液血管新生細胞概念を裏付けました.
研究 の 目的:
- 初期のマウスの胚におけるヘマンジオブラストのような祖先を特定し,特徴づけること.
- ガストルーレーション中のこれらの祖先の発達段階と位置を決定する.
主な方法:
- BL-CFCの成長を支える条件下で,胃化マウスの胚を培養する.
- クローナリティを評価するために,細胞混合および制限稀釋分析を使用します.
- 発光タンパク質タグ付けを用いた祖先集団における遺伝子発現 (ブラキウリ/T,Flk-1/Kdr) を分析する.
主要な成果:
- 特定された胚由来の祖先は,血球形成および血管の潜在能力を有するブラスト細胞コロニーを形成します.
- これらのコロニーのクローナリティが確認され,彼らの起源はヘマンジオブラストからであることを支持しています.
- 検出された胚由来ヘマンジオブラストは,ミッドストライクからニューラルプレート段階まで,主に後部原始的なストライクで検出されました.
- 血球芽細胞は,ブラキュリとFlk-1を共発現するメソダーマ亜集団として示されている.
結論:
- 血液形成と血管の結束の初期段階は,卵黄の血島形成の前に,後部原始線で起こります.
- 胚由来ヘマンジオブラストは,早期の心血管および血液形成の発達において重要な役割を果たす独特の祖先集団を表しています.
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