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Of or relating to a rodlike strand of cells that forms the chief axial supporting structure of the body of certain animals.

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  • Cartilaginous neural arches and spines, formed outside the notochordal sheath, enclose the spinal cord in an arcade.
  • The notochordal cell population is reported to disappear from the nucleus pulposus of bovine discs before birth and from human discs in childhood.
  • As notochordal cells produce factors that promote matrix production, the CK8 positive subpopulation could have important implications for activity and survival of the...
  • I. is the intestine, coe. the coelom, s.c. the spinal cord; n.c. the notochord, surrounded by n.s., the notochordal sheath, ao. is the dorsal aorta.
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