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Extra-embryonic Wnt3 regulates the establishment of the primitive streak in mice.


ABSTRACT: The establishment of the head to tail axis at early stages of development is a fundamental aspect of vertebrate embryogenesis. In mice, experimental embryology, genetics and expression studies have suggested that the visceral endoderm, an extra-embryonic tissue, plays an important role in anteroposterior axial development. Here we show that absence of Wnt3 in the posterior visceral endoderm leads to delayed formation of the primitive streak and that interplay between anterior and posterior visceral endoderm restricts the position of the primitive streak. Embryos lacking Wnt3 in the visceral endoderm, however, appear normal by E9.5. Our results suggest a model for axial development in which multiple signals are required for anteroposterior axial development in mammals.

SUBMITTER: Yoon Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4469491 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Extra-embryonic Wnt3 regulates the establishment of the primitive streak in mice.

Yoon Yeonsoo Y   Huang Tingting T   Tortelote Giovane G GG   Wakamiya Maki M   Hadjantonakis Anna-Katerina AK   Behringer Richard R RR   Rivera-Pérez Jaime A JA  

Developmental biology 20150420 1


The establishment of the head to tail axis at early stages of development is a fundamental aspect of vertebrate embryogenesis. In mice, experimental embryology, genetics and expression studies have suggested that the visceral endoderm, an extra-embryonic tissue, plays an important role in anteroposterior axial development. Here we show that absence of Wnt3 in the posterior visceral endoderm leads to delayed formation of the primitive streak and that interplay between anterior and posterior visce  ...[more]

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