ectoderm

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Beyond that, researchers typically assess pluripotency by confirming that the cells can differentiate into the three primordial germ-layer tissues: endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm.

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For instance, the gut tube and liver derive from the endoderm; muscle and connective tissue from the mesoderm; and neural tissue and skin from the ectoderm.

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In gastrulation, the epiblast differentiates into the three germ layers of cells — the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm — that will form the fetus.

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The vertebrate telencephalon is thus likely to have arisen through the incorporation of non-neural ectoderm into anterior regions of the developing nervous system.

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From the outside in, concentric circles of cells form each of the three germ layers that give rise to all fetal tissues: the endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm cells.

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