Neural Crest Development
Introduction
The neural crest are bilaterally paired strips of cells arising in the ectoderm at the margins of the neural tube. These cells migrate to many different locations and differentiate into many cell types within the embryo. This means that many different systems (neural, skin, teeth, head, face, heart, adrenal glands, gastrointestinal tract) will also have a contribution fron the neural crest cells.
In the body region, neural crest cells also contribute the peripheral nervous system (both neurons and glia) consisting of sensory ganglia (dorsal root ganglia), sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia and neural plexuses within specific tissues/organs.
In the head region, neural crest cells migrate into the pharyngeal arches (as shown in movie below) forming ectomesenchyme contributing tissues which in the body region are typically derived from mesoderm (cartilage, bone, and connective tissue).General neural development is also covered in Neural Notes.
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Neural Crest Migration
Movie Source: Original Neural Crest movies kindly provided by Paul Kulesa.[3]
Related Movies: Migration 01 | Migration 02 | Migration 03 | Migration 04 | Migration 05 | Migration 06 | Migration 07
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Objectives
- Understand the structures derived from ectoderm.
- Understand the formation of neural folds.
- Identify the initial location of neural crest cells in the trilaminar embryo.
- Identify pathways of neural crest migration throughout the embryo.
- To know the major tissues to which neural crest cells contribute.
- To know how abnormalities in development that result from abnormal neural crest cell migration.
- Understand how neural crest cells contribute to the pharyngeal arches and the head structures they form.
Development Overview
Skin Melanocytes
Mouse melanocyte migration[4] | Movie Mouse Skin - Melanoblast Migration E14.5[5] |
References
- ↑ <pubmed>20399765</pubmed>
- ↑ <pubmed>20360764</pubmed>
- ↑ <pubmed>10683170</pubmed>
- ↑ <pubmed>16277556</pubmed>| PLoS Biol.
- ↑ <pubmed>20067551</pubmed>| PMC2859249
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