Development of Melanocyte Progenitors in Murine Steel Mutant Neural Crest Explants Cultured with Stem Cell Factor, Endothelin-3, or TPA

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 291-298

  Ono, Hirotake ^a,b   Kawa, Yoko ^b   Asano, Mari ^b   Ito, Masaru ^b   Takano, Atsuko ^b   Kubota, Yasuo ^b   Matsumoto, Jiro ^a   Mizoguchi, Masako ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACK2; c kit; Lethal spotting; Melanoblast; Neural crest; Phorbol ester; Piebald

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; DOPA; ENDOTHELIN 3; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MELANOCYTE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MURIDAE; MUTATION; NEURAL CREST; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CHOLERA TOXIN; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; ENDOTHELIN-3; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MURIDAE; MUTATION; NEURAL CREST; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELLS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032177264     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1998.tb00738.x     Document Type: Article

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