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What does epiblast mean?

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  1. (biology) The outer layer of a blastula that, after gastrulation, becomes the ectoderm.
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This cell group often splits into an upper layer, the epiblast, and a lower layer, the hypoblast.
This process is the primitive streak, and it is formed, like the sickle, of proliferating epiblast cells.
We also show that 3iL hESCs have a distinct epigenetic landscape, characterized by derepression of preimplantation epiblast genes.
When the egg of Amphioxus is in the blastosphere stage we cannot speak of either an epiblast or hypoblast.
The ring around the embryonic area where the walls of the vesicle are formed of epiblast and hypoblast.
Teeth-enamel is formed from the epiblast, and dentine, cementum, pulp from the mesoblast.

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