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This study utilizes immunofluorescence to describe the distribution of several extracellular matrix molecules in the chick embryo during the process of limb outgrowth and the formation of precartilage condensations. A large chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (PG-M) is detected at the wing level at Hamburger and Hamilton stage 14 in and under the dorsal ectoderm, and is associated with the basement membranes around the neural tube, notochord and pronephros, but not with other basement membranes. The galactose-specific leetin, peanut agglutinin (PNA), has a similar distribution except that it also binds to the dorsal side of the neural tube. PG-M is not detected in the limb mesenchyme until after stage 17, when it is present in the distal region, as is PNA-binding material. With further development of the wing bud, PG-M is present in the subectodermal mesenchyme, the mesenchyme at the distal tip and in the prechondrogenic core. After stage 22 PNA-binding material becomes localized in the prechondrogenic core, the basement membranes under the apical ectodermal ridge, and the ventral sulcus. The distribution of these components (PG-M and PNA binding material) overlaps, but differs from that of type I collagen and fibronectin and basement membrane components, such as laminin, basement membrane heparan sulfate proteoglycan, and type IV collagen. Tenascin, on the other hand, is not detected in the limb bud until stage 25, after the appearance of cartilage matrix components such as type II collagen and cartilage proteoglycan (PG-H). These results are considered in relation to the formation of precartilage aggregates, and indicate that PNA binds to components in precartilage aggregates other than PG-M or tenascin.
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Shinomura, T., Jensen, K.L., Yamagata, M. et al. The distribution of mesenchyme proteoglycan (PG-M) during wing bud outgrowth. Anat Embryol 181, 227–233 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00174617
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