Embryonic development requires extensive interaction between cells; cell-to-cell
communication through gap junctions may be one mechanism involved. Much correlative …

The status of the gap junction as a pathway for cellular interactions during development is
reviewed. Current evidence suggests that gap junctions play an important part in ensuring …

The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in our understanding of early animal
development. The revised edition of this excellent book describes the results of this …

Epidermal cells of the Arabidopsis thaliana root are derived from a ring of 16 or so initials
(stem cells) that are located just below the quiescent centre of four central cells. Derivatives …

Spirally cleaving embryos in which the first two cleavages generate four equal-sized
blastomeres remain radially symmetrical along their animal-vegetal axis until the interval …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the electrical dimension of cells. Cells which are
symmetrical with respect to all their plasma membrane properties are probably rare, if they …

We characterized the pattern of gap junctional communication in the 7.5-d mouse embryo (at
the primitive streak or gastrulation stage). First we examined the pattern of dye coupling by …

Cell-to-cell communication plays important roles in development and in tissue
morphogenesis. Gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) has been implicated in …

Embryonic organizers are signaling centers that coordinate developmental events within an
embryo. Localized to either an individual cell or group of cells, embryonic organizing activity …

Cell-cell communication through gap junctions was examined in Xenopus laevis embryos
between the 16cell and early blastula stages using Lucifer Yellow, Fluorescein, lead EDTA …