Welcome to syndetome: a new somitic compartment.
Virtually nothing was known about the embryonic origin of tendons, until a recent paper by Brent and colleagues in which they track the origin of tendon progenitors of the body axis and reveal the molecular events and tissue interactions leading to their commitment.
Dubrulle
Julien
J
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
Pourquie
Olivier
O
D002454:Cell Differentiation; D019170:Somites / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D013710:Tendons / Q000166:cytology* / Q000196:embryology*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
D014157:Transcription Factors