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Development of melanocyte progenitors in murine Steel mutant neural crest explants cultured with stem cell factor, endothelin-3, or TPA.
Pigment cell research - 1 Oct 1998
Ono H, Kawa Y, Asano M, Ito M, Takano A, Kubota Y, Matsumoto J, Mizoguchi M
Abstract excerpt
Stem cell factor (SCF) has been suggested to be indispensable for the development of neural crest cells into melanocytes because Steel mutant mice (i.e., Sl/Sl(d)) have no pigmented hairs. On the other hand, it has been demonstrated that the addition of endothelin 3 (ET-3) or TPA to neural crest cell cultures can induce melanocyte differentiation without addition of extrinsic SCF. In this study, we excluded the...
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