BIOL 3202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Developmental Biology, Skeletal Muscle, Sarcomere
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Textbook: principles of development (no need for recent edition) download. Development can be studied in different levels- cells instead of whole animal: Skeletal muscles as a model for studying development. Watch video: progenitor interstitial cells transforming into muscle: Myofibers being formed- muscle cell has more than one nuclei. The mouse as a model system- skeletal muscle directly from mice. Dna microarray mentioned as to where gene expressed and when. Transgenetic animal that was deficient in bin 1 (animals were smaller) affected size. Histology/biochemistry -> bands thicker, sarcomere is disorganized contraction of muscle distorted. Bin1 bring all proteins of sarcomere together (the sarcolemma) At its roots, we mean how does a single cell divide and multiply to form a complete multicellular organism. Cleavage: when the embryonic cells keep dividing but do not grow. Signals: cells communicate to each other and their environment.