Envelopment by endothelial cells initiates translocation of avian primordial germ cell into vascular tissue.
Hidetaka MuraiMinami ShibuyaRyohei KishitaChihiro SunaseKoji TamuraDaisuke SaitoPublished in: Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists (2021)
Our findings demonstrate that the major type of avian PGC translocation into vascular tissue is not a typical intravasation, as performed by types of metastatic cancer cells, but rather a passive translocation (envelopment) mediated by differentiating ECs during early vasculogenesis.