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To elucidate whether cells committed to a thyroid fate might be triggered to differentiate asynchronously related to maturation and developmental stage, mouse embryonic thyroid tissues from E12.5-17.5 were subjected to immunofluorescent labeling of biomarkers (progenitors: NKX2-1; differentiation: thyroglobulin\/TG); folliculogenesis: E-cadherin\/CDH1; luminogenesis: mucin 1\/MUC1; apical polarity: pericentrin\/PCNT; basement membrane: laminin; growth: Ki67), quantitative RT-PCR analysis (<jats:italic>Nkx2.1<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Tg<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Muc1<\/jats:italic>) and transmission electron microscopy. <jats:italic>Tg<\/jats:italic> expression was detectable as early as E12.5 and gradually increased &amp;gt;1000-fold until E17.5. <jats:italic>Muc1<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Nkx2.1<\/jats:italic> transcript levels increased in the same time interval. Prior to lobulation (E12.5-13.5), MUC1 and TG distinguished pre-follicular from progenitor cells in the developing isthmus characterized by intense cell proliferation. Luminogenesis comprised redistribution of MUC1+ vesicles or vacuoles, transiently associated with PCNT, to the apical cytoplasm and the subsequent formation of MUC1+ nascent lumens. Apical polarization of pre-follicular cells and lumen initiation involved submembraneous vesicular traffic, reorganization of adherens junctions and ciliogenesis. MUC1 did not co-localize with TG until a lumen with a MUC1+ apical membrane was established. MUC1 delineated the lumen of all newly formed follicles encountered in the developing lobes at E15.5-17.5. Folliculogenesis started before establishment of a complete follicular basal lamina. These observations indicate that embryonic thyroid differentiation is an asynchronous process consistent with the idea that progenitors attaining a stationary position in the connecting isthmus portion undergo apical polarization and generate follicles already at a primordial stage of thyroid development, i.e. foregoing growth of the lobes. 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