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During early embryogenesis, heart and skeletal muscle progenitor cells are thought to derive from distinct regions of the mesoderm (i.e. the lateral plate mesoderm and paraxial mesoderm, respectively). In this study, we have employed both in vitro and in vivo experimental system…

Changes in the levels of expression of the prolactin receptor (PRLR) mRNA in the pituitary gland, hypothalamus, liver, pancreas, kidney and gonad from embryonic day (ED) 15 and ED21 to 1 day post-hatch, respectively, in chickens and turkeys were measured by real-time PCR. In bot…