page_title: Axial mesoderm
hierarchical_section_title: Axial mesoderm
caption_attribution_description: Colorized version of Image:Gray19.png, from Gray's Anatomy.
context_page_description: Axial mesoderm, or chordamesoderm, is a type of mesoderm that lies along the central axis under the neural tube.
  will give rise to notochord
  starts as the notochordal process, whose formation finishes at day 20.
  important not only in forming the notochord itself but also in inducing development of the overlying ectoderm into the neural tube
  will eventually induce the formation of vertebral bodies.
  ventral floor of the notochordal process fuses with endoderm.
  The notochord will form the nucleus pulposus of intervertebral discs. There is some discussion as to whether these cells contributed from the notochord are replaced by others from the adjacent mesoderm.
  It gives rise to the notochordal process, which later becomes the notochord.
context_section_description: Axial mesoderm, or chordamesoderm, is a type of mesoderm that lies along the central axis under the neural tube.
  will give rise to notochord
  starts as the notochordal process, whose formation finishes at day 20.
  important not only in forming the notochord itself but also in inducing development of the overlying ectoderm into the neural tube
  will eventually induce the formation of vertebral bodies.
  ventral floor of the notochordal process fuses with endoderm.
  The notochord will form the nucleus pulposus of intervertebral discs. There is some discussion as to whether these cells contributed from the notochord are replaced by others from the adjacent mesoderm.
  It gives rise to the notochordal process, which later becomes the notochord.
caption: Transverse section of a chick embryo of forty-five hours’ incubation.
  * Axial mesoderm: yellow, at notochord.
  * Paraxial mesoderm: red, at somite.
  * Intermediate mesoderm: purple, near Wolffian duct.
  * Lateral plate mesoderm: purple, near "Somatic mesoderm" and "Splanchic mesoderm".
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