{"id":7911,"date":"2019-05-22T16:01:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/experimental_embryology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:59","slug":"experimental_embryology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/experimental_embryology\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimental embryology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came to replace descriptive embryology in the middle of the 19th century as means of trying to identify experimentally the &#8216;mechanics&#8217; of growth and development (the causal-analytic approach). &nbsp;Experimental manipulations included the selective destruction of tissues (<a href=\"http:\/\/embryo.asu.edu\/view\/embryo:124915\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/embryo.asu.edu\/view\/embryo:124915&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wilhelm Roux<\/a>, 1850-1924; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pflyceum.org\/263.html\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.pflyceum.org\/263.html&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hans Driesch<\/a>, 1867-1941) or the transplantation of one body part to another part of the body (<a href=\"http:\/\/embryo.asu.edu\/view\/embryo:124703\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/embryo.asu.edu\/view\/embryo:124703&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hans Spemann<\/a>, 1869-1941). &nbsp;The latter manipulation was aimed at finding the organiser or organising center that induced the formation of the neural tube. &nbsp;In general terms, an organiser is a part of the embryo that provides a stimulus for the direction of morphogenesis and the differentiation of other parts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"developmental_biology\">Developmental biology<\/a>, <a href=\"differentiation_-embryology-\">Differentiation (embryology)<\/a>, <a href=\"embryology\">Embryology<\/a>, <a href=\"induction_-embryology-\">Induction (embryology)<\/a>, <a href=\"equipotentiality\">Equipotentiality<\/a>, <a href=\"morphogenesis\">Morphogenesis<\/a>, <a href=\"neural_tube\">Neural tube<\/a>, Organizer (embryology) <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came to replace descriptive embryology in the middle of the 19th century as means of trying to identify experimentally the &#8216;mechanics&#8217; of growth and development (the causal-analytic approach). &nbsp;Experimental manipulations included the selective destruction of tissues (Wilhelm Roux, 1850-1924; Hans Driesch, 1867-1941) or the transplantation of one body part to another part of the body &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/experimental_embryology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Experimental embryology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}