Phenotypic plasticity of Schwann cells and enteric glial cells in response to the microenvironment.

doi:10.1073/pnas.88.14.6358

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Phenotypic plasticity of Schwann cells and enteric glial cells in response to the microenvironment.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Jul 1991

Dulac C, Le Douarin N M

Abstract excerpt

We produced earlier a monoclonal antibody against Schwann cell myelin protein (SMP), a glycoprotein expressed on Schwann cells (SC) but not on satellite cells of the ganglia or enteric glial cells. We now studied whether SMP expression is environmentally regulated in the different compartments of...

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Animals
Cells, Cultured
Chick Embryo
Chimera
Coturnix
Embryo, Nonmammalian
Mesencephalon
Myenteric Plexus
Neural Crest
Neuroglia
Neuronal Plasticity
Phenotype
Schwann Cells

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