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Development, Vol 120, Issue 12 3571-3579, Copyright © 1994 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Hypoblastic tissue and fibroblast growth factor induce blood tissue (haemoglobin) in the early chick embryo

C Gordon-Thomson and BC Fabian
Biology Department, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.

We have investigated the temporal and the causal basis of blood tissue specification in the chick embryo. Earlier workers have shown that the prospective blood-forming area is specified in a horseshoe-shaped area at the posterior side of the embryo. We found that cultured explants from the posterior marginal zone at stages XI to XIII (consisting of the posterior marginal zone and part of Koller's sickle) have a high propensity to form haemoglobin (Hb), which could be inhibited at stage XI by adding antibody against basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) to the neutral culture medium; this treatment had no effect from stage XII onwards. The same result was found when whole embryos were cultured with an antiserum raised against bFGF, or with heparin. In another series of experiments, we found that cultured pieces from the inner-core of stage XIII epiblasts (with or without hypoblast tissue) were able to form Hb, whereas inner-core pieces from the pre-hypoblast stages, namely stages X and XI, did not form Hb. The capacity to form Hb, however, could be conferred upon the inner-core pieces from stage X epiblasts if bFGF at a concentration of 75-150 ng/ml was added to the culture medium. Furthermore, and most pertinently, the capacity to form Hb could be conferred on stage X inner-core pieces when they were co-cultured with hypoblast from a stage XIII embryo in a sandwich explant. Thus the inductive role of the hypoblast appears to be mediated via bFGF.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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