The Neural Crest and Neural Crest Cells in Vertebrate Development and Evolution

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hall, Brian K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Human genetics.; Cytology.; Developmental biology.; Evolution (Biology).; Neurobiology.; Anthropology.; Life Sciences.; Developmental Biology.; Evolutionary Biology.; Cell Biology.; Human Genetics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09846-3

The evolution of the neural crest sheds light on many of the oldest unanswered questions in developmental biology, including the role of germ layers in early embryogenesis, the development of the nervous system, how the vertebrate head arose developmentally and evolutionarily, and how growth factors...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Discovery and Origins: Discovery of the Neural Crest
• Embryological Origins
• Evolutionary Origins
• Part II Derivatives and Diversity: Skeletal and Dental Derivatives
• Neural Derivatives
• Endocrine Derivatives
• Cardiac Derivatives
• Part III Mechanisms of Development of Neural Crest Cells: Specification of the Neural Crest
• Neural Crest Cells as Stem Cells
• Migration of Neural Crest Cells
• Interaction of Neural Crest Cells with Other Cell Types
• Differentiation of Neural Crest Cells
• Morphogenesis and Patterning of and by Neural Crest Cells
• Part IV Neurocristopathies, Syndromes and Birth Defects: Neurocristopathies
• Birth Defects (Gene Mutations)
• Notes
• References
• Index.