| Type | MGI:General | Description | ex vivo, dissected E13.5 palate shelves placed in proximal apposition do fuse after 2 days in culture but the gap between the two shelves is not fully filled by mesenchymal cells and a fraction of midline epithelial seam is still present while expression of epithelial cytokeratins is not completely eliminated in the medial edge epithelium (MEE), unlike in control palate shelves |
