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  • adjective biology prior to formation of the gastrula

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From pre- +‎ gastrula

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Examples

  • Studies in amphibian embryos dating back to the 1960s demonstrate that signals from the pregastrula endoderm support myocardial differentiation

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kemar Brown et al. 2010

  • Sakabe M, Sakata H, Yanagawa N, Ikeda K, et al. (2008) Induction of initial heart alpha-actin, smooth muscle alpha-actin, in chick pregastrula epiblast: the role of hypoblast and fibroblast growth factor-8.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kemar Brown et al. 2010

  • Yatskievych T, Ladd A, Antin P (1997) Induction of cardiac myogenesis in avian pregastrula epiblast: the role of the hypoblast and activin.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kemar Brown et al. 2010

  • With the advent of multiple lineage labels and time-lapse live imaging, we have clearly demonstrated that all or most the visceral endoderm that overlies the pregastrula epiblast is integrated into the definitive endoderm rather than being displaced by it.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kemar Brown et al. 2010

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