Characterization and isolation of melanocyte progenitors from mouse embryos

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-97

  Kunisada, Takahiro ^a,c   Yoshida, Hisahiro ^a   Ogawa, Minetaro ^a   Shultz, Leonard D ^b   Nishikawa, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Kit; flow cytometry; melanoblast; TRP2

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUSPENSION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030051472     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1996.00011.x     Document Type: Article

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