A late wave of melanoblast differentiation and rostrocaudal migration revealed in patch and rump-white embryos

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 135-143

  Jordan, Siobhán A ^a   Jackson, Ian J ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dct; Kit; Melanoblast; Melanocyte; Mgf; Mouse; Neural crest; Patch; Pigmentation; Rump white; Transgene

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DERMATOME; EMBRYO; LIGAND BINDING; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYO; HETEROZYGOTE; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034175810     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00332-9     Document Type: Article

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