Neural Crest Cells

Neural Crest Cells
Author: Paul Trainor
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2013-11-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0124045863

Neural Crest Cells: Evolution, Development and Disease summarizes discoveries of historical significance and provides in-depth, current analyses of the evolution of neural crest cells, their contribution to embryo development, and their roles in disease. In addition, prospects for tissue engineering, repair and regeneration are covered, offering a timely synthesis of the current knowledge in neural crest cell research. A comprehensive resource on neural crest cells for researchers studying cell biology, developmental biology, stem cells and neurobiology, Neural Crest Cells: Evolution, Development and Disease provides foundational information needed for students , practicing physicians and dentists treating patients with craniofacial defects. - BMA Medical Book Awards 2014 - Highly Commended,Basic and Clinical Sciences,2014, British Medical Association - Provides timely, comprehensive synthesis of the current knowledge of neural crest cells - Covers the evolution and development of neural crest cells - Includes content on applications for tissue engineering, repair and regeneration

The Neural Crest in Development and Evolution

The Neural Crest in Development and Evolution
Author: Brian K. Hall
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1475730640

A discussion of the neural crest and neural crest cells, dealing with their discovery, their embryological and evolutionary origins, their cellular derivatives - in both agnathan and jawed vertebrates or gnathostomes - and the broad topics of migration and differentiation in normal development. The book also considers what goes wrong when development is misdirected by mutations, or by exposure of embryos to exogenous agents such as drugs, alcohol, or excess vitamin A, and includes discussions of tumours and syndromes and birth defects involving neural crest cells.

The Neural Crest

The Neural Crest
Author: Nicole Le Douarin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 494
Release: 1999-11-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780521620109

This 1999 edition of The Neural Crest contains comprehensive information about the neural crest, a structure unique to the vertebrate embryo, which has only a transient existence in early embryonic life. The ontogeny of the neural crest embodies the most important issues in developmental biology, as the neural crest is considered to have played a crucial role in evolution of the vertebrate phylum. Data that analyse neural crest ontogeny in murine and zebrafish embryos have been included in this revision. This revised edition also takes advantage of recent advances in our understanding of markers of neural crest cell subpopulations, and a full chapter is now devoted to cell lineage analysis. The major research breakthrough since the first edition has been the introduction of molecular biology to neural crest research, enabling an elucidation of many molecular mechanisms of neural crest development. This book is essential reading for students and researchers in developmental biology, cell biology, and neuroscience.

Evolution and Development of Fishes

Evolution and Development of Fishes
Author: Zerina Johanson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019-01-10
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1107179440

World-class palaeontologists and biologists summarise the state-of-the-art on fish evolution and development.

Vertebrate Cranial Placodes

Vertebrate Cranial Placodes
Author: GERHARD. SCHLOSSER
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 752
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367748531

Most of the cranial sense organs of vertebrates arise from embryonic structures known as cranial placodes. Such placodes also give rise to sensory neurons that transmit information to the brain as well as to many neurosecretory cells. This book focuses on the development of sensory and neurosecretory cell types from cranial placodes by introducing the vertebrate head with its sense organs and neurosecretory organs and providing an overview of the various cranial placodes and their derivatives, including evidence of common embryonic primordia. Schlosser discusses how these primordia are established in the early embryo and how individual placodes develop. The latter chapters explain how various placodally derived sensory and neurosecretory cell types differentiate into discrete structures.

Neural Crest Induction and Differentiation

Neural Crest Induction and Differentiation
Author: Jean-Pierre Saint-Jeannet
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2006-08-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0387351361

Written by an international panel of recognized leaders in the field, Neural Crest Induction and Differentiation discusses all aspects of modern neural crest biology from its evolutionary significance to its specification, migration, plasticity and contribution to multiple lineages of the vertebrate body, to the pathologies associated with abnormal neural crest development and function. Abundant color figures enhance the text providing clear and attractive illustrations of central issues and concepts.

Cells, Embryos and Evolution

Cells, Embryos and Evolution
Author: Jon Gerhart
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 684
Release: 1997-06-04
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Gerhart and Kirschner aim to explain the origins of phenotypic variation and evolutionary adaptation from within eukaryotic cell biological and developmental processes. Their examples are drawn from paleontology, developmental and cell biology.

Evolving Neural Crest Cells

Evolving Neural Crest Cells
Author: Brian Frank Eames
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1351805916

Vertebrates possess lineage-specific characteristics. These include paired anterior sense organs and a robust, modular head skeleton built of cellular cartilage and bone. All of these structures are derived, at least partly, from an embryonic tissue unique vertebrates - the neural crest. The evolutionary history of the neural crest, and neural crest cells, has been difficult to reconstruct. This volume will use a comparative approach to survey the development of the neural crest in vertebrates, and neural crest-like cells, across the metazoa. This information will be used to reveal neural crest evolution and identify the genomic, genetic, and gene-regulatory changes that drove them. Key selling features: Summarizes the data regarding neural crest cells and nerural crest derivatives Uses a broad-based comparative approach Suggests hypothesis that the origin of neural crest cells involved the novel co-activation of ancient metazoan gene programs in neural border cells Illustrates how the emergences of neural crest made possible the diversification of vertebrate heads

Epigenetics

Epigenetics
Author: Benedikt Hallgrimsson Ph.D.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2011-04-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0520948823

Illuminating the processes and patterns that link genotype to phenotype, epigenetics seeks to explain features, characters, and developmental mechanisms that can only be understood in terms of interactions that arise above the level of the gene. With chapters written by leading authorities, this volume offers a broad integrative survey of epigenetics. Approaching this complex subject from a variety of perspectives, it presents a broad, historically grounded view that demonstrates the utility of this approach for understanding complex biological systems in development, disease, and evolution. Chapters cover such topics as morphogenesis and organ formation, conceptual foundations, and cell differentiation, and together demonstrate that the integration of epigenetics into mainstream developmental biology is essential for answering fundamental questions about how phenotypic traits are produced.