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Development, Vol 105, Issue 4 769-777, Copyright © 1989 by Company of Biologists

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Ectodermal inhibition of cartilage differentiation in micromass culture of chick limb bud mesenchyme in relation to gene expression and cell shape

BC Gregg, A Rowe, PM Brickell and L Wolpert
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London, UK.

Ectoderm inhibits the formation of cartilage by chick wing bud mesenchyme in micromass culture. This suggests that the pattern of cartilage formation in the limb bud may result from a restriction of cartilage cell differentiation to the limb bud core as cells leave the progress zone. We have used in situ hybridization to investigate whether ectodermal inhibition in micromass culture occurs at the level of gene transcription. We found that ectoderm completely inhibited the accumulation of cartilage-specific type II collagen transcripts in the mesenchyme cells, whilst the level of type I collagen transcripts was unaffected. Morphometric analysis of electron micrographs revealed that inhibition of chondrogenesis in micromass culture was not preceded by cell flattening. In fact, a rounded cell shape was found not to be a prerequisite for cartilage cell differentiation in micromass.


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