GASTRULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gastrulation mean? 

• GASTRULATION (noun)
  The noun GASTRULATION has 1 sense:

1. the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells

  Familiarity information: GASTRULATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASTRULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("gastrulation" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Holonyms ("gastrulation" is a part of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

 Context examples 

This protein may be involved in the gastrulation process.

(Cerberus, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in transcriptional activation of genes involved in trophoblast differentiation, gastrulation, and brain development.

(Eomesodermin Homolog, NCI Thesaurus)

By adding the PESCs, the team was able to see their ‘embryo’ undergo gastrulation, organising itself into the three body layers that all animals have.

(Scientists generate key life event in artificial mouse ‘embryo’ created from stem cells, University of Cambridge)

This gene may be involved in both gastrulation and neural development.

(CER1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Site of initiation of gastrulation in the amphibian embryo.

(Dorsal Lip, NCI Thesaurus)

Encoded by human FG8F Gene (FGF Family), alternative isoforms FGF-8A, FGF-8B, FGF-8E, and FGF-8F of secreted autocrine androgen-induced Fibroblast Growth Factor 8 may be involved in angiogenesis and/or act as an embryonic epithelial factor in midbrain and limb development, in organogenesis, in gastrulation, and in left-right axis determination.

(Fibroblast Growth Factor 8, NCI Thesaurus)

After the blastocyst stage of embryonic development, the inner cell mass of the blastocyst goes through gastrulation, a period when the inner cell mass becomes organized into three distinct cell layers, called germ layers.

(Germ layers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Receptors for BMPs, members of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGFb) superfamily, are persistently expressed during cardiac development, yet mice lacking type II or type IA BMP receptors die at gastrulation and cannot be used to assess potential later roles in creation of the heart.

(ALK Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

However, a key step in the life of the embryo – gastrulation, described by the eminent biologist Lewis Wolpert as “truly the most important time in your life” – was missing.

(Scientists generate key life event in artificial mouse ‘embryo’ created from stem cells, University of Cambridge)

Gastrulation is the point at which the embryo transforms from being a single layer to three layers: an inner layer (endoderm), middle layer (mesoderm) and outer layer (endoderm), determining which tissues or organs the cells will then develop into.

(Scientists generate key life event in artificial mouse ‘embryo’ created from stem cells, University of Cambridge)