Article
Hyperpigmentation in the Silkie fowl correlates with abnormal migration of fate-restricted melanoblasts and loss of environmental barrier molecules.
Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists - 1 Mar 2001
Faraco C D, Vaz S A, Pástor M V, Erickson C A
Abstract excerpt
In most homeothermic vertebrates, pigment cells are confined to the skin. Recent studies show that the fate-restricted melanoblast (pigment cell precursor) is the only neural crest lineage that can exploit the dorsolateral path between the ectoderm and somite into the dermis, thereby excluding neurons and glial cells from the skin. This does not explain why melanoblasts do not generally migrate ventrally into the...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Division
- Cell Movement
- Cells, Cultured
- Chick Embryo
- Melanocytes
- Mutation
- Neural Crest
- Peanut Agglutinin
- Phenotype
- Pigmentation Disorders
- Quail
- Skin Pigmentation