... development, using dental placodes, hair follicles, taste buds, lung neuroendocrine cells and lateral line neuromasts as examples. Hair follicle placode Lateral line primordium Lung neuroendocrine cell body Molar tooth placode Slithering Taste bud In vertebrates, an array of small...

..., and demonstrated the predominant expression of P-cadherin not only in the hair follicle placode, but also at the apical ectodermal ridge (AER) of the limb bud. Based on the evidence that mutations in the p63 gene also result in hypotrichosis and SHFM, and that the expression patterns of p63 and P-cadherin overlap...