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Helmut Kettenmann and Bruce R. Ransom

Print publication date: 2004

Print ISBN-13: 9780195152227

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152227.001.0001

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The Schwann Cell Lineage

Chapter:
(p. 85 ) 7 The Schwann Cell Lineage
Source:
Neuroglia
Author(s):

Kristján R. Jessen

Rhona Mirsky

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152227.003.0007

This chapter focuses on Schwann cells. Topics discussed include Schwann cell development, the use of markers to identify distinct stages of embryonic Schwann cell development, the origin of glial cells from the neural crest, Schwann cell precursors, regulation of the precursor-Schwann cell transition, and Schwann cell survival signals.

Keywords:   Schwann cell development, glial cells, Schwann cell precursors, cell transition, cell survival

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