The control of cell-cell adhesion and detachment is essential for collective migration and cell rearrangement. Here, we have used the contact behavior of Xenopus gastrula mesoderm explants migrating directionally on ectoderm conditioned substratum to study the regulation of active cell-cell detachment. When colliding laterally, explants repelled each other, whereas they fused front-to-back when aligned in the direction of migration. For this mesoderm polarization by the substratum, we identified three control modules. First, PDGF-A signaling normally suppresses contact-induced collapse of lamellipodia in a polarized manner. Disruption of PDGF-A function, or of Xwnt6, decreased the polarization of explant contact behavior. Second, the Wnt receptor Xfz7 acted upstream of the kinase Pak1 to control explant fusion independently of PDGF-A-promoted lamellipodia stability. Third, ephrinB1 acted with Dishevelled (Dvl) in front-to-back explant fusion. The second and third modules have been identified previously as regulators of tissue separation at the ectoderm-mesoderm boundary. On non-polarizing, fibronectin-coated substratum, they controlled repulsion between explants in the same way as between tissues during boundary formation. However, explant repulsion/fusion responses were reversed on conditioned substratum by the endogenous guidance cues that also control oriented contact inhibition of lamellipodia. Together, control modules and substratum-bound guidance cues combine preferential front-back adhesion and diminished lateral adhesion of cells to promote collective directional mesoderm migration.
{"title":"Polarized contact behavior in directionally migrating <i>Xenopus</i> gastrula mesendoderm.","authors":"Martina Nagel, Rudolf Winklbauer","doi":"10.1387/ijdb.230123rw","DOIUrl":"10.1387/ijdb.230123rw","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The control of cell-cell adhesion and detachment is essential for collective migration and cell rearrangement. Here, we have used the contact behavior of <i>Xenopus</i> gastrula mesoderm explants migrating directionally on ectoderm conditioned substratum to study the regulation of active cell-cell detachment. When colliding laterally, explants repelled each other, whereas they fused front-to-back when aligned in the direction of migration. For this mesoderm polarization by the substratum, we identified three control modules. First, PDGF-A signaling normally suppresses contact-induced collapse of lamellipodia in a polarized manner. Disruption of PDGF-A function, or of Xwnt6, decreased the polarization of explant contact behavior. Second, the Wnt receptor Xfz7 acted upstream of the kinase Pak1 to control explant fusion independently of PDGF-A-promoted lamellipodia stability. Third, ephrinB1 acted with Dishevelled (Dvl) in front-to-back explant fusion. The second and third modules have been identified previously as regulators of tissue separation at the ectoderm-mesoderm boundary. On non-polarizing, fibronectin-coated substratum, they controlled repulsion between explants in the same way as between tissues during boundary formation. However, explant repulsion/fusion responses were reversed on conditioned substratum by the endogenous guidance cues that also control oriented contact inhibition of lamellipodia. Together, control modules and substratum-bound guidance cues combine preferential front-back adhesion and diminished lateral adhesion of cells to promote collective directional mesoderm migration.</p>","PeriodicalId":94228,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of developmental biology","volume":" ","pages":"79-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41171630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Regeneration enables the regrowth and restoration of missing body parts. It is a common phenomenon among animals. However, only some species exhibit remarkable regeneration capabilities and can regenerate organs such as limbs, lenses or hearts. Regeneration has been widely studied, thereby giving rise to new fields, such as regenerative medicine. Furthermore, regeneration has the potential to be applied to the human body. However, the molecular mechanisms governing this process should be elucidated first. Recent advancements in research methods have led to the identification of numerous signaling pathways involved in regeneration. One of them, the Wnt transduction pathway, is an ancient and evolutionarily conserved pathway that plays an important role in both embryonic development and regeneration. The Wnt pathway plays an important role during the regeneration process, as it is implicated in cell fate determination, cell migration, cell polarity and adult cell homeostasis. To date, two major Wnt pathways have been identified: the canonical (β-catenin dependent) pathway and the non-canonical pathway. The latter pathway can be further divided into planar cell polarity, the Wnt/Ca2+ pathway and the JNK pathway. In this review, we summarize the current state of knowledge regarding the Wnt signaling pathway and its role in regeneration, with a particular emphasis on key model species.
{"title":"Insights into the role of the Wnt signaling pathway in the regeneration of animal model systems.","authors":"Katarzyna S Walczyńska, Ling Zhu, Yujun Liang","doi":"10.1387/ijdb.220144yl","DOIUrl":"10.1387/ijdb.220144yl","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Regeneration enables the regrowth and restoration of missing body parts. It is a common phenomenon among animals. However, only some species exhibit remarkable regeneration capabilities and can regenerate organs such as limbs, lenses or hearts. Regeneration has been widely studied, thereby giving rise to new fields, such as regenerative medicine. Furthermore, regeneration has the potential to be applied to the human body. However, the molecular mechanisms governing this process should be elucidated first. Recent advancements in research methods have led to the identification of numerous signaling pathways involved in regeneration. One of them, the Wnt transduction pathway, is an ancient and evolutionarily conserved pathway that plays an important role in both embryonic development and regeneration. The Wnt pathway plays an important role during the regeneration process, as it is implicated in cell fate determination, cell migration, cell polarity and adult cell homeostasis. To date, two major Wnt pathways have been identified: the canonical (β-catenin dependent) pathway and the non-canonical pathway. The latter pathway can be further divided into planar cell polarity, the Wnt/Ca2+ pathway and the JNK pathway. In this review, we summarize the current state of knowledge regarding the Wnt signaling pathway and its role in regeneration, with a particular emphasis on key model species.</p>","PeriodicalId":94228,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of developmental biology","volume":"67 3","pages":"65-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71490792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The third meeting of the Visegrád Group Society for Developmental Biology (V4SDB) was held on September 8th-10th, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. It was a continuation of previous meetings, the first organized in the Czech Republic in 2018 and the second in Hungary in 2021. Similarly to the previous meetings, the organizers created a friendly platform for networking and science sharing. The conference gathered an excellent group of 160 researchers working on various animal models, who during lecture and poster sessions discussed a broad range of subjects, including early embryonic development, organogenesis, genetic and epigenetic control of developmental processes, stem cells and regeneration, cellular dynamics and migration in developmental biology, and in vitro models in development and disease. Additionally, two satellite events were organized: the Young Developmental Biologists' Forum, which gave young researchers an opportunity to share and promote their work and to participate in hands-on courses, and an outreach initiative "Developmental Biology for Everyone", which presented different aspects of developmental biology to a broad audience.
{"title":"Developmental Biology: from genes to functional organism - news from the 3<sup>rd</sup> Meeting of the Visegrád Group Society for Developmental Biology.","authors":"Ewelina Trela, Agnieszka Walewska","doi":"10.1387/ijdb.230228et","DOIUrl":"10.1387/ijdb.230228et","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The third meeting of the Visegrád Group Society for Developmental Biology (V4SDB) was held on September 8<sup>th</sup>-10<sup>th</sup>, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. It was a continuation of previous meetings, the first organized in the Czech Republic in 2018 and the second in Hungary in 2021. Similarly to the previous meetings, the organizers created a friendly platform for networking and science sharing. The conference gathered an excellent group of 160 researchers working on various animal models, who during lecture and poster sessions discussed a broad range of subjects, including early embryonic development, organogenesis, genetic and epigenetic control of developmental processes, stem cells and regeneration, cellular dynamics and migration in developmental biology, and <i>in vitro</i> models in development and disease. Additionally, two satellite events were organized: the Young Developmental Biologists' Forum, which gave young researchers an opportunity to share and promote their work and to participate in hands-on courses, and an outreach initiative \"Developmental Biology for Everyone\", which presented different aspects of developmental biology to a broad audience.</p>","PeriodicalId":94228,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of developmental biology","volume":" ","pages":"109-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139089805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ling Ran, Lishuang Liu, Jingjing Gao, Yang Pan, Murugan Ramalingam, Xiaoyu Du, Ying Liu, Lijia Cheng, Zheng Shi
For the past 50 years, hydroxyapatite (HA) has been widely used in bone defect repair because it is the main inorganic component of the mineral phase of a human bone. Extensive preclinical and clinical studies have shown that strontium (Sr) can safely and effectively help prevent and treat bone diseases, including osteoporosis. These findings have resulted in the concept of integrating Sr and HA for bone disease management. The doped Sr can improve the physicochemical properties of HA and enhance its angiogenic and bone regeneration ability. Nevertheless, no study has reviewed the design strategy of Sr-doped HA (Sr-HA) to understand its biological roles. Therefore, in this article, we review recent developments in Sr-HA preparation and its effect on osteogenesis and angiogenesis in vitro and in vivo along with key suggestions for future research and development.
{"title":"Strontium-doped hydroxyapatite and its role in osteogenesis and angiogenesis","authors":"Ling Ran, Lishuang Liu, Jingjing Gao, Yang Pan, Murugan Ramalingam, Xiaoyu Du, Ying Liu, Lijia Cheng, Zheng Shi","doi":"10.1387/ijdb.230091lc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.230091lc","url":null,"abstract":"For the past 50 years, hydroxyapatite (HA) has been widely used in bone defect repair because it is the main inorganic component of the mineral phase of a human bone. Extensive preclinical and clinical studies have shown that strontium (Sr) can safely and effectively help prevent and treat bone diseases, including osteoporosis. These findings have resulted in the concept of integrating Sr and HA for bone disease management. The doped Sr can improve the physicochemical properties of HA and enhance its angiogenic and bone regeneration ability. Nevertheless, no study has reviewed the design strategy of Sr-doped HA (Sr-HA) to understand its biological roles. Therefore, in this article, we review recent developments in Sr-HA preparation and its effect on osteogenesis and angiogenesis in vitro and in vivo along with key suggestions for future research and development.","PeriodicalId":94228,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of developmental biology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135705501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dimitrios Dimitrakopoulos, D. Kakogiannis, I. Kazanis
In the postnatal mammalian brain, neurogenic activity is retained in anatomically restricted areas, driven by pools of Neural Stem Cells (NSCs). These cells and their progeny have been studied intensively as potential targets for regenerative treatments, aiming either to their in situmanipulation, or to their use as sources of cells for transplantation-based strategies. Although their full identity, heterogeneity and differentiation potential remain elusive, due to the absence of specific cell-type markers, our knowledge on their properties is constantly expanding. Here, we focus on the NSC niche that is located at the Subependymal Zone (SEZ/ also known as Subventricular Zone) of the lateral ventricles of the brain. We review, summarize and explain the different faces of the NSC, as they have been described using a wide range of experimental approaches in a time-frame of three decades: the primitive, definitive, quiescent or activated NSC. We also review the accumulating evidence on the existence of latent NSCs outside of niches, in the brain parenchyma, that constitute new promising therapeutic targets, complemented by the novel technologies of in vivocell reprogramming.
{"title":"Heterogeneity of quiescent and active neural stem cells in the postnatal brain.","authors":"Dimitrios Dimitrakopoulos, D. Kakogiannis, I. Kazanis","doi":"10.1387/ijdb.220010ik","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.220010ik","url":null,"abstract":"In the postnatal mammalian brain, neurogenic activity is retained in anatomically restricted areas, driven by pools of Neural Stem Cells (NSCs). These cells and their progeny have been studied intensively as potential targets for regenerative treatments, aiming either to their in situmanipulation, or to their use as sources of cells for transplantation-based strategies. Although their full identity, heterogeneity and differentiation potential remain elusive, due to the absence of specific cell-type markers, our knowledge on their properties is constantly expanding. Here, we focus on the NSC niche that is located at the Subependymal Zone (SEZ/ also known as Subventricular Zone) of the lateral ventricles of the brain. We review, summarize and explain the different faces of the NSC, as they have been described using a wide range of experimental approaches in a time-frame of three decades: the primitive, definitive, quiescent or activated NSC. We also review the accumulating evidence on the existence of latent NSCs outside of niches, in the brain parenchyma, that constitute new promising therapeutic targets, complemented by the novel technologies of in vivocell reprogramming.","PeriodicalId":94228,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of developmental biology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88124798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The movement of continuous sheets of epithelial cells occurs during embryonic development, tissue repair, and cancer. Common to cellular and molecular principles of collective cell migration, invading cancers seem to reactivate embryonic pathways and patterns of cell movement. Epithelial cells possess the capability to become mesenchymal cells in a process called epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT), which has been extensively studied and described. The aim of this article is to summarizes the most recent literature data concerning less known epithelial-endothelial transition and endothelial-mesenchymal transition.
{"title":"Epithelial endothelial transition and endothelial mesenchymal transition.","authors":"D. Ribatti","doi":"10.1387/ijdb.210234dr","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.210234dr","url":null,"abstract":"The movement of continuous sheets of epithelial cells occurs during embryonic development, tissue repair, and cancer. Common to cellular and molecular principles of collective cell migration, invading cancers seem to reactivate embryonic pathways and patterns of cell movement. Epithelial cells possess the capability to become mesenchymal cells in a process called epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT), which has been extensively studied and described. The aim of this article is to summarizes the most recent literature data concerning less known epithelial-endothelial transition and endothelial-mesenchymal transition.","PeriodicalId":94228,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of developmental biology","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76497210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Konstantopoulos, Alexandros Dimiropoulos, N. Zagris
CD44 is a membrane glycoprotein and is the main receptor for hyaluronan. We studied the CD44 expression and spatio-temporal distribution by RT-PCR and immunofluorescence, and used an anti-CD44 blocking antibody to perturb CD44-depended signalling programs in the early chick embryo. The intense CD44 levels we detected in the morula embryo (XI) were of novel interest suggestive of a maternally stored transcript. Intriguingly, the CD44 early presence seemed to be essential for the rapid synthesis of hyaluronan. At stage XIII (blastula), CD44 expression was intense in the epiblast and hypoblast. During gastrulation (HH3-4), the cells ingressing into the primitive groove and migrating and the blood islands expressed CD44 intensely. At HH8, the folding neural plate showed polarity regulation of CD44 expression, and expression was also intense in neural crest, notochord, and blood islands. During early organogenesis, CD44 was expressed intensely in the developing cranial and caudal neural tube which showed polarity regulation, in optic stalks, otic vesicles, pre-and migratory neural crest cells, ganglia, notochord, pharynx, gut, liver, aortae, heart, somites, vascular area, amnion, chorion and was distinct in extracellular matrix of cranial neural tube and otic vesicle lumens. Antibody-mediated perturbation of CD44 function resulted in unorganized extracellular matrix, loss of tissue spaces, grossly abnormal notochord, intermingling of clumped neuroectoderm and mesenchyme, absence of somites and blood vessels, inhibition of neural crest cell emigration. CD44 has various pivotal roles in matrix integrity and tissue patterning consistent with its known biochemical features and interactions with hyaluronan, growth factors, receptors and other signaling molecules.
{"title":"Hyaluronan receptor CD44: developmentally regulated expression and role in the early chick embryo.","authors":"K. Konstantopoulos, Alexandros Dimiropoulos, N. Zagris","doi":"10.1387/ijdb.220008nz","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.220008nz","url":null,"abstract":"CD44 is a membrane glycoprotein and is the main receptor for hyaluronan. We studied the CD44 expression and spatio-temporal distribution by RT-PCR and immunofluorescence, and used an anti-CD44 blocking antibody to perturb CD44-depended signalling programs in the early chick embryo. The intense CD44 levels we detected in the morula embryo (XI) were of novel interest suggestive of a maternally stored transcript. Intriguingly, the CD44 early presence seemed to be essential for the rapid synthesis of hyaluronan. At stage XIII (blastula), CD44 expression was intense in the epiblast and hypoblast. During gastrulation (HH3-4), the cells ingressing into the primitive groove and migrating and the blood islands expressed CD44 intensely. At HH8, the folding neural plate showed polarity regulation of CD44 expression, and expression was also intense in neural crest, notochord, and blood islands. During early organogenesis, CD44 was expressed intensely in the developing cranial and caudal neural tube which showed polarity regulation, in optic stalks, otic vesicles, pre-and migratory neural crest cells, ganglia, notochord, pharynx, gut, liver, aortae, heart, somites, vascular area, amnion, chorion and was distinct in extracellular matrix of cranial neural tube and otic vesicle lumens. Antibody-mediated perturbation of CD44 function resulted in unorganized extracellular matrix, loss of tissue spaces, grossly abnormal notochord, intermingling of clumped neuroectoderm and mesenchyme, absence of somites and blood vessels, inhibition of neural crest cell emigration. CD44 has various pivotal roles in matrix integrity and tissue patterning consistent with its known biochemical features and interactions with hyaluronan, growth factors, receptors and other signaling molecules.","PeriodicalId":94228,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of developmental biology","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78362851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vasiliki Kommata, Evaggelia Alexopoulou, Elentina K. Argyrousi, C. Dermon
Avian cerebellum, a highly conserved, laminated and foliated structure, provides an excellent model for developmental studies. During the intermediate embryonic stages, granule cell progenitor proliferation and the inwards migration of post-mitotic granule cells have been implicated in the morphogenesis of cerebellar cortex cytoarchitecture and foliation. The present study questioned the spatio-temporal expression pattern of pleiotrophin, an extracellular matrix growth factor, during the morphogenesis of embryonic cerebellum and the roles of ionotropic AMPA glutamate receptors and the diffusible neuromodulator nitric oxide (NO) in the proliferation pattern of EGL granule cell progenitors. For this, the density of proliferating cells in the developing embryonic external granule layer (EGL) was determined following acute treatment with AMPA receptor antagonist CNQX or NO synthase inhibitor L-NAME, at embryonic stages HH38-41 (E12-E15 days), by means of BrdU immunohistochemistry and double immunofluorescence. Importantly, at earlier stages pleiotrophin-like immunoreactivity showed high expression levels in the EGL that gradually decreased, persisting within the growing folia apices, later in development. Interestingly, blockage of AMPA receptors had no effect; while NOS inhibition resulted in transient age- and region-specific increases of EGL granule progenitor cell proliferation at earlier stages, but decreased the post-mitotic granule cells at folia apices, at a later stage HH41 (E15 day). Taken all together, NO had a transient anti-proliferative effect in EGL similar to mammalian cerebellum, acting as a modulator of the EGL function at different stages, suggesting its possible implication in complex processes guiding cerebellar cytoarchitecture and folia formation.
{"title":"Pleiotrophin, nitric oxide and glutamate AMPA receptors in chick cerebellum morphogenesis.","authors":"Vasiliki Kommata, Evaggelia Alexopoulou, Elentina K. Argyrousi, C. Dermon","doi":"10.1387/ijdb.210213cd","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.210213cd","url":null,"abstract":"Avian cerebellum, a highly conserved, laminated and foliated structure, provides an excellent model for developmental studies. During the intermediate embryonic stages, granule cell progenitor proliferation and the inwards migration of post-mitotic granule cells have been implicated in the morphogenesis of cerebellar cortex cytoarchitecture and foliation. The present study questioned the spatio-temporal expression pattern of pleiotrophin, an extracellular matrix growth factor, during the morphogenesis of embryonic cerebellum and the roles of ionotropic AMPA glutamate receptors and the diffusible neuromodulator nitric oxide (NO) in the proliferation pattern of EGL granule cell progenitors. For this, the density of proliferating cells in the developing embryonic external granule layer (EGL) was determined following acute treatment with AMPA receptor antagonist CNQX or NO synthase inhibitor L-NAME, at embryonic stages HH38-41 (E12-E15 days), by means of BrdU immunohistochemistry and double immunofluorescence. Importantly, at earlier stages pleiotrophin-like immunoreactivity showed high expression levels in the EGL that gradually decreased, persisting within the growing folia apices, later in development. Interestingly, blockage of AMPA receptors had no effect; while NOS inhibition resulted in transient age- and region-specific increases of EGL granule progenitor cell proliferation at earlier stages, but decreased the post-mitotic granule cells at folia apices, at a later stage HH41 (E15 day). Taken all together, NO had a transient anti-proliferative effect in EGL similar to mammalian cerebellum, acting as a modulator of the EGL function at different stages, suggesting its possible implication in complex processes guiding cerebellar cytoarchitecture and folia formation.","PeriodicalId":94228,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of developmental biology","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87368888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developmental Biology in Greece.","authors":"N. Zagris","doi":"10.1387/ijdb.220039nz","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.220039nz","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":94228,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of developmental biology","volume":"27 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77839283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aristotle made important contributions to many fields-biology, physics, metaphysics, logic, ethics, rhetoric, psychology, aesthetics, poetry- that are now cultivated by specialized experts, but he never lost sight of the aim of unifying knowledge, of understanding the world as an organized whole. Aristotle was the first to combine wet, field biology with daring cosmological thinking. He is the father of natural history and the first embryologist known to history. Aristotle's classic treatises History of Animals/Περί ζῴων ἱστορίαι, and On the Generation of Animals/ Περί ζῴων γενέσεως "enjoyed for more than fifteen hundred years an authority altogether without parallel". Over the last four decades, the introduction of molecular techniques has gradually overturned the entire structure of the biological sciences. Biology, initially a science of inventory and classification in the hands of the 19th-century comparative naturalists, has become a science of codes and regulatory circuits. Aristotle was the first to codify laws of pure logic, and so he founded what is today known as ' proof theory' in mathematics. Aristotle was an inveterate collector and a classifier, the master scientist of his time. His main concern was to classify "the ultimate furniture of the world", under basic headings and categories, a powerful human strategy to organize knowledge for comprehension and action. This was part of Aristotle's attempt to create a theory of reality, one strongly opposed to Plato's otherworldly doctrine of the ideal 'forms'. To many generations of thinkers in the great era of Scholastic philosophy, Aristotle was known simply as "The Philosopher".
{"title":"Aristotle (384-322 BC): the beginnings of Embryology.","authors":"N. Zagris","doi":"10.1387/ijdb.220040nz","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.220040nz","url":null,"abstract":"Aristotle made important contributions to many fields-biology, physics, metaphysics, logic, ethics, rhetoric, psychology, aesthetics, poetry- that are now cultivated by specialized experts, but he never lost sight of the aim of unifying knowledge, of understanding the world as an organized whole. Aristotle was the first to combine wet, field biology with daring cosmological thinking. He is the father of natural history and the first embryologist known to history. Aristotle's classic treatises History of Animals/Περί ζῴων ἱστορίαι, and On the Generation of Animals/ Περί ζῴων γενέσεως \"enjoyed for more than fifteen hundred years an authority altogether without parallel\". Over the last four decades, the introduction of molecular techniques has gradually overturned the entire structure of the biological sciences. Biology, initially a science of inventory and classification in the hands of the 19th-century comparative naturalists, has become a science of codes and regulatory circuits. Aristotle was the first to codify laws of pure logic, and so he founded what is today known as ' proof theory' in mathematics. Aristotle was an inveterate collector and a classifier, the master scientist of his time. His main concern was to classify \"the ultimate furniture of the world\", under basic headings and categories, a powerful human strategy to organize knowledge for comprehension and action. This was part of Aristotle's attempt to create a theory of reality, one strongly opposed to Plato's otherworldly doctrine of the ideal 'forms'. To many generations of thinkers in the great era of Scholastic philosophy, Aristotle was known simply as \"The Philosopher\".","PeriodicalId":94228,"journal":{"name":"The International journal of developmental biology","volume":"14 1","pages":"5-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83441353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}