In earlier conceptions of kidney biology, the nephrotome was a section of the mesoderm that gives rise to the pronephros and eventually to the rest of the kidney. Older texts describe the pronephros as forming through the fusion of multiple nephrotomes. Modern visualization methods, such as scanning electron microscopy, in situ hybridization, and ...
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(from the article `animal development`) The kidneys of vertebrates consist of a mass of tubules that develop from the stalks of somites called nephrotomes. In some primitive vertebrates ... ...three experiments in kidney production: the pronephros, or earliest type; the mesonephros, or intermediate kidney; and the metanephros, or ... ...
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The intermediate mesoderm, sometimes so designated because it evolves into nephric primordia. ... Origin: nephro-+ G. Tome, a cutting ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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(nef´ro-tōm) one of the segmented divisions of the embryonic mesoderm connecting the somite with the lateral plates of unsegmented mesoderm; the source of much of the urogenital system.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: nef′rō-tōm Definitions: 1. The segmented intermediate mesoderm develops into nephric primordia.
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