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Control of the limb bud outgrowth in quail-chick chimera

✍ Scribed by Hiroko Ohki-Hamazaki; Tohru Katsumata; Yuki Tsukamoto; Naoyuki Wada; Ichiro Kimura

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 668 KB
Volume: 208
Category: Article
ISSN: 1058-8388
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0177(199701)208:1<85::aid-aja8>3.0.co;2-y

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✦ Synopsis

It is well known that the apical ectodermal ridge (AER) and the zone of polarizing activity (ZPA) play a major role in growth and patterning of the limb. But a mechanism underlying species-specific growth of the limb has not yet been fully elucidated. To investigate the role of AER and ZPA in limb size control, we constructed quail-chick limb chimeras. When we grafted a whole forelimb bud from one species to another, the size of the developed grafted limb was comparable to the limb of the donor species. Moreover, we demonstrated that neither the interspecific substitution of the posterior half region of the limb bud containing the ZPA nor the exchange of the ectodermal component of the limb involving the AER could alter the species-specific size of the limb. These results indicate that the factors affecting the size of the limb are already involved in the mesodermal component of the limb bud at stage 20 of chick embryo. Thus, the mesoderm dictates limb specificity including size.

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