title: Proposed role of microfilaments in the cell reorientation that accompanies somite formation in Xenopus.
abstract: Somite formation involves a reorientation of the cells of the paraxial mesoderm but the underlying mechanism of this movement has never been demonstrated. The present investigation shows bundles of myofibril-like material in the ventrocranial corners of some of the paraxial mesoderm cells of Xenopus prior to reorientation and consequent somite formation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, London Hospital Medical College, UK.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Burgess
mesh_terms: D008841:Actin Cytoskeleton / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000187:drug effects; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008648:Mesoderm / Q000502:physiology*; D014982:Xenopus laevis / Q000196:embryology*