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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Nov 26.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Dyn. 2007 Jan;236(1):251–261. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.21014

TABLE 6.

Pronephros Formation Occurs in Association With Somitic Muscle in Explants Expressing Chordina

Tissues in explants
Chordin mRNA injected (pgs) % pronephros + muscle % muscle only % pronephros only

0 (n = 59) 0 14b 0
50 (n = 36) 8 47 0
125 (n = 37) 35 49 0
250 (n = 33) 36 55 0
500 (n = 40) 52 48 0
a

See Figure 5.

b

Most of these explants only expressed scattered 12-101-positive cells and not blocks of muscle tissue.