Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The part of the embryonic mesoderm, consisting of loosely packed, unspecialized cells set in a gelatinous ground substance, from which connective tissue, bone, cartilage, and the circulatory and lymphatic systems develop.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tissue or substance of the mesoderm of some animals, as sponges.
- noun In embryology, the whole or a portion of the middle germ-layer, or mesoblast, when this layer is not epithelial, but consists of stellate, loosely interconnected, or even disconnected cells like those seen in primitive forms of connective tissue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy That part of the
mesoderm of anembryo that develops intoconnective tissue ,bone ,cartilage , etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mesodermal tissue that forms connective tissue and blood and smooth muscles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This secreted tissue in its simple or in its differentiated state, with all its derivatives, we call the mesenchyme "
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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In recent years, however, pluripotent stem cells were discovered in various human tissues – in the spinal cord, in the brain, in the mesenchyme (connective tissue) of various organs, and in the blood of the umbilical cord.
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Embryonic cells, which become singly detached from their epitheliar connections we consider to be something quite different from the germ-layers, and accordingly we call them by the special name of mesenchyme germs or primary cells of the mesenchyme.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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They distinguished in the middle layer two quite distinct elements, the mesoblast proper, formed by the evagination of the walls of the archenteron, and the mesenchyme, formed by free cells budded off from the germ-layers.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Bovine SOLD1 is expressed in trophoblast mononucleate cells (TMCs) and is localized in the cotyledonary mesenchyme.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Koichi Ushizawa 2010
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Bovine SOLD1 is expressed in trophoblast mononucleate cells (TMCs) and is localized in the cotyledonary mesenchyme.
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Di-Poi N, Ng CY, Tan NS, Yang Z, Hemmings BA, et al. (2005) Epithelium-mesenchyme interactions control the activity of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor beta/delta during hair follicle development.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Malgorzata Romanowska et al. 2010
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Orotates are taken up by tissues that embryonically from mesenchyme: bone, cartilage, liver, blood vessels, heart and the blood brain barrier
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Orotates are taken up by tissues that embryonically from mesenchyme: bone, cartilage, liver, blood vessels, heart and the blood brain barrier
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Beginning as a hemocytoblast, a cell that has multiple development potentials, in the mesenchyme, the structure slowly turns into an erythroblast, which then loses its nucleus and mitochondria and gains hemoglobin.
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