Environmental signals and neural crest cells.
Cell lineage analysis in both the central and peripheral nervous system of vertebrates has revealed that many neural progenitor cells are multipotent. These observations have raised the general issue of when and how such multipotent progenitors generate their various differentiated progeny. The environment of these progenitors controls the cell lineage decisions in the neural crest. This review considers the roles of the environmental signals in the context of the development of several different neural crest-derived lineages.
Poirier
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Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Biologie Appliquée, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France.
Boisseau
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Poujeol
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Simonneau
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D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000502:physiology*; D008544:Melanocytes / Q000166:cytology; D009432:Neural Crest / Q000166:cytology*; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000166:cytology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology
D006133:Growth Substances