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UsingTriturus pyrrhogaster embryos, the effects of uninduced cells on the differentiation of induced cells were investigated. The inducing stimulus was given to the presumptive ectoderm of early gastrulae by treatment with protein sooution from guinea pig bone-marrow. Mesodermal induction was evoked in the ectodermal explants. After the treatment, some of the ectodermal explants were cut into pieces 1/8 of their original size and combined with untreated presumptive ectoderm. Mesodermal tissues were differentiated in the combined explants too, but the mesodermal tissues evoked in these combined ectodermal explants were different in their regional characters from these in uncombined explants; dorsal structures, such as notochrod and muscle, were observed predominatly in the latter, whereas the dominant structures observed in the former were ventral ones, such as mesothelium and mesenchyme. The shifting of the regional characters in the combined explants was regarded as the result of an unknown effect from the uninduced cells.
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Sasaki, N., Iyeiri, S. & Kurihara, K. Interaction of induced and uninduced cells during primary induction. Wilhelm Roux' Archiv 179, 237–241 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00848648
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