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ArticleDevelopmental biology2018

Early specification and development of rabbit neural crest cells.

Erin Betters, Rebekah M Charney, Martín I Garcia-Castro

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Article in Developmental biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. A dual role for GLI3 signaling in neural crest development.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026
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  4. Evolutionary mechanisms modulating the mammalian skull development.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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  5. Post-transcriptional regulation in cranial neural crest cells expands developmental potential.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Erin BettersSchool of Medicine Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
Rebekah M CharneySchool of Medicine Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
Martín I Garcia-CastroSchool of Medicine Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. Electronic address: martin.garcia-castro@ucr.edu.
University of California, Riverside · US

Funding

Molecular Interactions During Neural Crest FormationR01DE017914 · NIDCR · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GARCIA-CASTRO, MARTIN I. · 2007 to 2025
$6.3M
Specification, induction and development of the neural crest in rabbit embryosR21DE028112 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI GARCIA-CASTRO, MARTIN I. · 2018 to 2019
$409k
NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE017914NIDCR NIH HHS R21 DE028112
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The phenomenal migratory and differentiation capacity of neural crest cells has been well established across model organisms. While the earliest stages of neural crest development have been investigated in non-mammalian model systems such as Xenopus and Aves, the early specification of this cell population has not been evaluated in mammalian embryos, of which the murine model is the most prevalent. Towards a more comprehensive understanding of mammalian neural crest formation and human comparative studies, we have used the rabbit as a mammalian system for the study of early neural crest specification and development. We examine the expression profile of well-characterized neural crest markers in rabbit embryos across developmental time from early gastrula to later neurula stages, and provide a comparison to markers of migratory neural crest in the chick. Importantly, we apply explant specification assays to address the pivotal question of mammalian neural crest ontogeny, and provide the first evidence that a specified population of neural crest cells exists in the rabbit gastrula prior to the overt expression of neural crest markers. Finally, we demonstrate that FGF signaling is necessary for early rabbit neural crest formation, as SU5402 treatment strongly represses neural crest marker expression in explant assays. This study pioneers the rabbit as a model for neural crest development, and provides the first demonstration of mammalian neural crest specification and the requirement of FGF signaling in this process.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiological EvolutionBody PatterningCell DifferentiationCell MovementChick EmbryoFibroblast Growth FactorsGastrulaGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHumansNeural CrestNeural TubeNeurogenesisNeurulationRabbitsSignal TransductionFibroblast Growth FactorsTranscription FactorsAP2αFGF signalingMammalian embryogenesisNeural crestNeural plate borderPax3Pax7RabbitSox10Sox9SpecificationSU5402

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PMID29932896
PMCPMC6685428
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