Both Nodal signalling and stochasticity select for prospective distal visceral endoderm in mouse embryos

In the mouse embryo, anterior-posterior polarity is established by distal visceral endoderm (DVE) at embryonic day 5.5 but how this arises is unclear. Here, the authors show that expression of Lefty1 earlier can define DVE, and that future DVE cells are selected by Nodal signalling and stochasticity...

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Main Authors: Katsuyoshi Takaoka, Hiromi Nishimura, Hiroshi Hamada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01625-x