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01.08.2005 | Original Article
Expression of chemokine receptor CXCR4 during chick embryo development
verfasst von:
Faisal Yusuf, Rizwan Rehimi, Fangping Dai, Beate Brand-Saberi
Erschienen in:
Brain Structure and Function
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Ausgabe 1/2005
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Abstract
The chemokine receptor CXCR4 plays a decisive role in physiological cell migration both in developmental processes and adult tissues; it has also been implicated in metastasis formation of different human cancers (Balkwill
2004) and in HIV pathogenesis (Murdoch
2000). Here we present the expression pattern of this important chemokine receptor CXCR4 in the chick embryo. A dynamic expression pattern can be detected beginning as early as the gastrulation stages until the observed stage of HH28. During gastrulation, expression was observed in the epiblast at the level of the primitive streak and in the endoderm. Later, expression was noticeable in the ventral foregut portal, developing somites, tail bud, neural tube, the intermediate mesoderm, Wolffian duct, the lateral plate mesoderm and the developing blood vessels. Our descriptive data suggest a role for CXCR4 in gastrulation and other morphogenetic events connected with angiogenesis and kidney development.