Article
Soluble and cell-bound forms of steel factor activity play distinct roles in melanocyte precursor dispersal and survival on the lateral neural crest migration pathway.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Mar 1995
Wehrle-Haller B, Weston J A
Abstract excerpt
Trunk neural crest cells segregate from the neuroepithelium and enter a 'migration staging area' lateral to the embryonic neural tube. After some crest cells in the migration staging area have begun to migrate on a medial pathway, a subpopulation of crest-derived cells remaining in the migration...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Movement
- Cell Survival
- Central Nervous System
- Gene Expression
- Genotype
- Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Situ Hybridization
- Melanocytes
- Mesoderm
- Mice