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In an effort to identify the neural inducing factor(s) emanating from the dorsal mesoderm, we have examined the inductive action of various growth factors by applying them to ectoderm cells from Xenopus gastrulae (8to 12.5-hour age; embryonic stage 9+ to ) in a microculture system. Monoclonal antibodies that specifically recognize cellular differentiation antigens from three distinct ectoderm lineages (N1 for CNS neurons from neural tube, Me1 for melanophores from neural crest and E3 for skin epidermal cells from epidermal lineages, respectively) and a mesoderm lineage (Mu1 for muscle cells) were used as markers to monitor the differentiation of cultured ectoderm cells.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>We found that basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) was capable of specifically and reproducibly inducing gastrula ectoderm cells to produce CNS neurons and melanophores at concentrations as low as 5 pM, a value about 50-fold lower than that required to induce the formation of muscle cells from blastula animal cap cells (6-hour age; stage 8+). The induction of neural lineages by bFGF was correlated with a suppression of epidermal differentiation in a dose-dependent manner. bFGF never induced the formation of muscle cells from gastrula ectoderm cells even at concentrations as high as 5 nM.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>The response of ectoderm cells to bFGF changed dramatically during gastrulation. Ectoderm cells from early (8to 9-hour age; stage 9+ to 10) gastrula gave rise to CNS neurons, but yielded few melanophores. As ectoderm cells were prepared from gastrulae of increasing age, their competence to form neurons was gradually lost, whereas the production of melanophores was enhanced and peaked in 11-hour gastrula (stage ). The ability to form both neurons and melanophores was substantially reduced in 12.5-hour gastrula (stage ). By examining ectoderm cells from the ventral and dorsal sides independently, it was also shown that during gastrulation the change in response to bFGF of the ventral ectoderm preceded that of the dorsal ectoderm.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>The state of competence of the ectoderm changed primarily due to intrinsic factors rather than by instruction from other parts of the gastrula embryo. This was shown by adding bFGF to cultures of ectoderm cells that were isolated at 9-hour (stage 10) and cultured for increasing periods to allow their autonomous development. The time course of both loss of neuronal competence and gain and loss of melanophore competence closely paralleled that observed in vivo during gastrulation. Further, we showed that the sensitivity of ectoderm cells to bFGF in the neuronal and melanophore induction processes decreased during later gastrula stages; i.e., higher doses of bFGF were required for older ectoderm cells to be fully induced. A possible role of bFGF in neural induction during normal development is discussed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1242\/dev.119.4.1067","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,26]],"date-time":"2021-04-26T01:30:53Z","timestamp":1619400653000},"page":"1067-1078","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":120,"title":["Basic fibroblast growth factor induces differentiation of neural tube and neural crest lineages of cultured ectoderm cells from <i>Xenopus<\/i> gastrula"],"prefix":"10.1242","volume":"119","author":[{"given":"Mineko","family":"Kengaku","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Brain Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo Department of Neurobiology , , Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Harumasa","family":"Okamoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Brain Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo Department of Neurobiology , , Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"237","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1993,12,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023120223051912900_DEVELOP_119_4_1067C1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"257","DOI":"10.1016\/0092-8674(91)90616-7","article-title":"Expression of a dominant negative mutant of the FGF receptor disrupts Mesoderm formation in Xenopus embryos","volume":"66","author":"Amaya","year":"1991","journal-title":"Cell"},{"key":"2023120223051912900_DEVELOP_119_4_1067C2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"893","DOI":"10.1242\/dev.101.4.893","article-title":"The organization of mesodermal pattern in Xenopuslaevis: experiments using a Xenopus mesoderm inducing factor","volume":"101","author":"Cooke","year":"1987","journal-title":"Development"},{"key":"2023120223051912900_DEVELOP_119_4_1067C3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1111","DOI":"10.1016\/0092-8674(91)90288-A","article-title":"Molecular nature of Spemann\u2019s organizer: the role of Xenopus homeobox gene goosecoid","volume":"67","author":"Cho","year":"1991","journal-title":"Cell"},{"key":"2023120223051912900_DEVELOP_119_4_1067C4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"271","DOI":"10.1016\/0092-8674(91)90638-F","article-title":"Growth factors in development, transformation, and tumorgenesis","volume":"64","author":"Cross","year":"1991","journal-title":"Cell"},{"key":"2023120223051912900_DEVELOP_119_4_1067C5","article-title":"The responses of ectoderm to mesoderm induction in early embryos of Xenopus laevis","volume-title":"D. 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