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endoderm
Sign in to saveEndoderm is the innermost of the three primary germ layers in the very early embryo. The other two layers are the ectoderm (outside layer) and mesoderm (middle layer). Cells migrating inward along the archenteron form the inner layer of the gastrula, which develops into the endoderm.
Key facts
- Embryology.Name
- Endoderm
- Embryology.Image
- Embryonic_origin_of_endoderm.png
- Embryology.Caption
- Tissues derived from endoderm.
- Embryology.Days
- 16
- Embryology.Precursor
- Epiblast
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
14,635 papers- Vertebrate endoderm development.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026
- Metabolic and epigenetic regulation of endoderm differentiation.Trends in cell biology · 2022
- Vertebrate endoderm development.Annual review of cell and developmental biology · 1999
- Endoderm and mesoderm derivatives in embryonic stem cell differentiation and their use in developmental toxicity testing.Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.) · 2022
- Alliance of Heart and Endoderm: Multilineage Organoids to Model Co-development.Circulation research · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
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Endoderm is the innermost of the three primary germ layers in the very early embryo. The other two layers are the ectoderm (outside layer) and mesoderm (middle layer). Cells migrating inward along the archenteron form the inner layer of the gastrula, which develops into the endoderm.
The endoderm consists at first of flattened cells, which subsequently become columnar. It forms the epithelial lining of multiple systems.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “endoderm” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.