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Development, Vol 107, Issue 4 793-803, Copyright © 1989 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
HW van Straaten, JW Hekking, JP Beursgens, E Terwindt-Rouwenhorst and J Drukker
Department of Anatomy/Embryology, Medical Faculty, National University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
After implantation of a notochord fragment lateral to the neural tube in a 2-day chick embryo, at 4 days the ipsilateral neural tube half was increased in size and axons left the neural tube in a broad dorsoventral area (van Straaten et al. 1985). This enlargement appears to coincide with an increased area of AChE-positive basal plate neuroblasts, as determined with scan-cytophotometry. The effect was ipsilateral and local: clear effects were seen only when the implant was localized less than 80 microns from the neural tube and over 120 microns from the ventral notochord. In order to investigate the expected enhancement of proliferation, the mitotic density and the number of cells at the site of the implant at 3 days was determined and the mitotic index calculated. All three parameters showed an increase. It was concluded that the cell cycle was shorter in the implant area relative to the control area, at least during the third day. At 4 days the number of cells was still increased, predominantly in the basal plate. It appeared that the numerical increase was for the larger part due to neuroblasts. The synergism of two notochords thus resulted in enhancement of proliferation and differentiation in the neural tube. It is suggested that the notochord merely regulates and arranges the surrounding sclerenchymal cells, which are the effective cells in the regulation of neural tube development.
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