A 1999 edition of a highly successful book describing comprehensive research in the study of the neural crest.
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 ...
(A) An agnathan, showing the serially arranged gill arches. (B) Transformations of the first of the serial gill arches to produce the jaws in gnathostomes. (C) The jaws were further strengthened, elongated and supported by the skeleton ...
In this new edition of his essential work, The Neural Crest in Development and Evolution, Brian Hall has provided an up-to-date technically and intellectually rigorous synthesis of knowledge of all aspects of the neural crest and of neural ...
294–9. doi:10.1002/dvg.20392 Ebert, S. N., Ficklin, M. B., Her, S., Siddall, B. J., Bell, R. A., Ganguly, K., ... 277–84. doi:10.1097/00008390-199608000-00001 Eliazer, S., Spencer, J., Ye, D., Olson, E., and Ilaria, R. L., Jr. (2003).
Abundant color figures enhance the text providing clear and attractive illustrations of central issues and concepts.
The book offers readers an understanding of the development of neural crest cells, which is crucial as many birth defects and tumours are of neural crest origin.
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.
Covers all aspects of the structure, function, neurochemistry, transmitter identification and development of the enteric nervous system This book brings together extensive knowledge of the structure and cell physiology of the enteric ...
Brings together important contributions by professionals in a range of fields. Its three major sections focus on the developmental biology of the neural crest; recent advances in this area, and...
This timely book correlates in vitro data with results obtained from knock-out mice with targeted neurotrophin or receptor deletions, with the goal of determining the fidelity and usefulness of various experimental culture systems.