Melanocyte Production: Dark Side of the Schwann Cell

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Graham, Anthony ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; MELANOCYTE; METABOLISM; NEURAL CREST; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHWANN CELL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; MELANOCYTES; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NEURAL CREST; SCHWANN CELLS;

EID: 72449146836     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.10.063     Document Type: Short Survey

References (9)

1. Le Douarin N.M., and Kalcheim C. The Neural Crest. 2nd Edition (1999), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
2. Erickson C.A. From the crest to the periphery: control of pigment cell migration and lineage segregation. Pigment Cell Res. 6 (1993) 336-347
3. Adameyko I., Lallemend F., Aquino J.B., Pereira J.A., Topilko P., Muller T., Fritz N., Beljajeva A., Mochii M., Liste I., et al. Schwann cell precursors from nerve innervation are a cellular origin of melanocytes in skin. Cell 139 (2009) 366-379
4. Erickson C.A., Duong T.D., and Tosney K.W. Descriptive and experimental analysis of the dispersion of neural crest cells along the dorsolateral path and their entry into ectoderm in the chick embryo. Dev. Biol. 151 (1992) 251-272
5. Wehrle-Haller B., and Weston J.A. Soluble and cell-bound forms of steel factor activity play distinct roles in melanocyte precursor dispersal and survival on the lateral neural crest migration pathway. Development 121 (1995) 731-742
6. Steingrimsson E., Copeland N.G., and Jenkins N.A. Melanocytes and the microphthalmia transcription factor network. Annu. Rev. Genet. 38 (2004) 365-411
7. Jessen K.R., and Mirsky R. The origin and development of glial cells in peripheral nerves. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 6 (2005) 671-682
8. Leone D.P., Genoud S., Atanasoski S., Grausenburger R., Berger P., Metzger D., Macklin W.B., Chambon P., and Suter U. Tamoxifen-inducible glia-specific Cre mice for somatic mutagenesis in oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells. Mol. Cell Neurosci. 22 (2003) 430-440
9. Lemke G.E., and Brockes J.P. Identification and purification of glial growth factor. J. Neurosci. 4 (1984) 75-83