The Neural Crest Cell Lineage Problem: Neuropoiesis?
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Anderson, David J.
Abstract
The neural crest is a remarkable invention of vertebrate embryogenesis. It consists of a population of precursor cells that detaches from the apical neural tube and then rapidly disperses into the embryo along complex pathways of migration. The proliferating crest cells arrest their migration in various locales where they aggregate to form the sensory and autonomic ganglia of the peripheral nervous system. Neural crest cells also invade developing tissues such as the skin, gut, and adrenal gland to generate differentiated cell populations within these tissues, e.g., melanocytes, enteric neurons, and adrenal medullary chromaffin cells, respectively. The diversity of the cell types derived from the neural crest (Table 1) poses the problem of how uncommitted embryonic cells acquire particular developmental fates.
Additional Information
© 1989 by Cell Press. I thank J. Carnahan and P. Patterson for sharing their unpublished data. I am also grateful to D. Stemple, J. Sabry, S. Taplitz, and P. Patterson for their critical readings of the manuscript and to P. Patterson for key readings and discussions of hemopoiesis that occurred at the 1988 Cold Spring Harbor summer course on Developmental Neurobiology. Thanks are due also to Ms. Teresa Morales-Oblon and Ms. Anita R. Shaw for their careful and timely preparation of the manuscript and to Tom Jessell and Eric Kandel for sound editorial advice. The writing of this review was supported by a Sloan Foundation Fellowship in Neuroscience.Additional details
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- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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