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Development, Vol 128, Issue 10 1745-1755, Copyright © 2001 by Company of Biologists
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WF Denetclaw, E Berdougo, SJ Venters and CP Ordahl
Department of Anatomy and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. w8109640@sfsu.edu
The morphogenetic cell movements responsible for growth and morphogenesis in vertebrate embryos are poorly understood. Myotome precursor cells undergo myotomal translocation; a key morphogenetic cell movement whereby myotomal precursor cells leave the dermomyotome epithelium and enter the subjacent myotome layer where myogenic differentiation ensues. The precursors to the embryonic epaxial myotome are concentrated in the dorsomedial lip (DML) of the somite dermomyotome (W. F. Denetclaw, B. Christ and C. P. Ordahl (1997) Development 124, 1601-1610), a finding recently substantiated through surgical transplantation studies (C. P. Ordahl, E. Berdougo, S. J. Venters and W. F. Denetclaw, Jr (2001) Development 128, 1731-1744). Confocal microscopy was used here to analyze the location and pattern of myotome cells whose precursors had earlier been labeled by fluorescent dye injection into the middle region of the DML, a site that maximizes the potential to discriminate among experimental outcomes. Double-dye injection experiments conducted at this site demonstrate that cells fated to form myotome do not involute around the recurved epithelium of the DML but rather are displaced laterally where they transiently intermingle with cells fated to enter the central epithelial sheet region of the dermomyotome. Time- and position-dependent labeling experiments demonstrated that myotome precursor cells translocate directly from the middle region of the DML without prior intra-epithelial 'translational' movements of precursor cells to either the cranial or caudal lips of the dermomyotome epithelium, nor were any such translational movements evident in these experiments. The morphogenetic cell movements demonstrated here to be involved in the directional growth and segmental patterning of the myotome and dermomyotome bear interesting similarities with those of other morphogenetic systems.
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