{"id":8458,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/morphogenetic_field\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:55","slug":"morphogenetic_field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/morphogenetic_field\/","title":{"rendered":"Morphogenetic field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of cells of a particular organ whose position and fate are specified with respect to the same set of boundaries. The field has a definite boundary and the organ forms only from interactions between cells within the field. &nbsp;Gradients within the field can serve as a source of positional information as to where cells should go in the field. &nbsp;When the general fate of such a field is determined, it will give rise to a particular organ (e.g., eye, heart) and one of the first to be identified was the limb field consisting of mesodermal cells. &nbsp;During the 1960s, the concept of morphogenetic fields gave way to the operon model of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK10023\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK10023\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">differential gene transcription<\/a>. &nbsp;Since the 1990s, however, it has become re-established, partly due to the fact that molecular markers of such fields (e.g., cardiac fields of the chick embryo) have been identified).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Dynamical systems theory (development and evolution), <a href=\"homeodomain_proteins_and_homeobox_genes\">Homeodomain proteins and homeobox genes<\/a>, <a href=\"hox_genes\">Hox genes<\/a>, <a href=\"induction_-embryology-\">Induction (embryology)<\/a>, <a href=\"jacob-monod_operon_model\">Jacob-Monod operon model<\/a>, <a href=\"limb_bud\">Limb bud<\/a>, <a href=\"maturational_gradients\">Maturational gradients<\/a>, <a href=\"mesoderm\">Mesoderm<\/a>, <a href=\"morphogenesis\">Morphogenesis<\/a>, <a href=\"organizer_-embryology-\">Organizer (embryology)<\/a>, Pattern formation <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of cells of a particular organ whose position and fate are specified with respect to the same set of boundaries. The field has a definite boundary and the organ forms only from interactions between cells within the field. &nbsp;Gradients within the field can serve as a source of positional information as to where &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/morphogenetic_field\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morphogenetic field&#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-8458","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\/8458","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=8458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}