The somites (outdated term: primitive segments) are a set of bilaterally paired blocks of paraxial mesoderm that form in the embryonic stage of somitogenesis, along the head-to-tail axis in …

Oct 20, 2010 · Somites are literally the building blocks of the vertebrate body plan; they are essential for segmentation, bone and musculature development, as well as creating a template …

In the developing vertebrate embryo, somites are masses of mesoderm that can be found distributed along the two sides of the neural tube. They will eventually become dermis …

As the primitive streak regresses and the neural folds begin to gather at the center of the embryo, the paraxial mesoderm separates into blocks of cells called somites. Although somites are …

Somites are bilaterally paired blocks of paraxial mesoderm that form along the anterior-posterior axis of the developing embryo in vertebrates. The somites give rise to skeletal muscle, …

The term somitogenesis is used to describe the process of segmentation of the paraxial mesoderm within the trilaminar embryo body to form pairs of somites, or balls of mesoderm. In …

somite, in embryology, one of a longitudinal series of blocklike segments into which the mesoderm, the middle layer of tissue, on either side of the embryonic spine becomes divided. …

During development, vertebrate embryos produce serially repeated elements, the somites, on each side of the midline. These generate the vertebral column, skeletal musculature and dermis.

Somites are segmental units of the bilateral paraxial mesoderm (PM) lying lateral to the neural tube and notochord, and medial to the intermediate and lateral plate mesoderm.

Somites form as repeated, periodic structures in pairs along nearly the entire caudal vertebrate axis. The morphological process involves short- and long-range signals that drive cell …