visceral endoderm

Term ID

UBERON:0004877

Synonyms

Definition

Visceral endoderm, a population of extraembyonic endoderm, is an extraembryonic tissue that functions in a regulatory capacity but does not contribute directly to the formation of any adult organs[PMID:15905405]. primitive endoderm-derived tissue which remains in contact with and surrounds the extra-embryonic ectoderm and the epiblast and provides signals for the differentiation and patterning of the epiblast; a small number of visceral endoderm cells also contribute to the endoderm of the embryonic gut[MP]. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15905405

References

• BTO:0003487
• EMAPA:16058

Ontology

Cell Ontology