Neural induction is a developmental process that allows cells from the ectoderm (the target
tissue) to acquire a neural fate in response to signals coming from a specific adjacent …

The response to neural induction depends on the presence of inducing signals and on the
state of competence of the responding tissue. The epiblast of the chick embryo loses its …

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Background The molecular mechanism that initiates the formation of the vertebrate central
nervous system has long been debated. Studies in Xenopus and mouse demonstrate that …

Subdivision of the neuroectoderm into three rows of cells along the dorsal-ventral axis by
neural identity genes is a highly conserved developmental process. While neural identity …

Neural induction is the process through which pluripotent cells are committed to a neural
fate. This first step of central nervous system formation is triggered by the 'Spemann …

The patterned distribution of different organs in the amphibian embryo begins with the
establishment of two domains, the animal and vegetal regions, that differ in developmental …

In vertebrates, the development of the nervous system is triggered by signals from a
powerful 'organizing'region of the early embryo during gastrulation. This phenomenon …

During neural induction, the embryonic neural plate is specified and set aside from other
parts of the ectoderm. A popular molecular explanation is thedefault model'of neural …

The temporally and spatially restricted nature of the differentiation capacity of cells in the
neural lineage has been studied extensively in recent years. Epigenetic control of …