Article
[Phenotypic plasticity of neural crest-derived melanocytes and Schwann cells].
Biologie aujourd'hui - 1 Jan 2011
Dupin Elisabeth
Abstract excerpt
Melanocytes, the pigmented cells of the skin, and the glial Schwann cells lining peripheral nerves are developmentally derived from an early and transient ectodermal structure of the vertebrate embryo, the neural crest, which is also at the origin of multiple neural and non-neural cell types. Besides melanocytes and neural cells of the peripheral nervous system, the neural crest cells give rise to mesenchymal...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation
- Embryonic Development
- Endothelin-3
- Environment
- Humans
- Melanocytes
- Neural Crest
- Phenotype
- Schwann Cells
- Stem Cells