title: Multipotentiality of the neural crest.
abstract: Multiple neural and non-neural cell types arise from the neural crest (NC) in vertebrate embryos. Recent work has provided evidence for multipotent stem cells and intermediate precursors in the early NC cell population as well as in various NC derivatives in embryos and even in adult. Advances have been made towards understanding how cytokines, regulatory genes and cell-cell interactions cooperate to control commitment and differentiation to pigment cells, glia and neurone subtypes. In addition, NC cell fates appeared to be unstable, as differentiated NC cells can reverse to multipotent precursors and transdifferentiate in vitro.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Embryologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, CNRS UMR 7128, 49bis, avenue de la Belle Gabrielle, 94736 Nogent-sur-Marne cedex, France. nicole.le-douarin@college-de-france.fr
authors.forename: Nicole M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Le Douarin
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dupin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017776:Autonomic Pathways / Q000196:embryology; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology*; D019334:Endothelin-3 / Q000502:physiology; D005724:Ganglia / Q000196:embryology; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009432:Neural Crest / Q000196:embryology*; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology; D010641:Phenotype
chemical_list: D019334:Endothelin-3; D006133:Growth Substances