A melanoblast is a precursor cell of a melanocyte. These cells migrate from the trunk neural crest cells (in terms of axial level from neck to posterior end) dorsolaterally between the ectoderm and dorsal surface of the somites.[1]
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A melanoblast is a precursor cell of a melanocyte. These cells migrate from the trunk neural crest cells (in terms of axial level from neck to posterior...
stem cells develop into both keratinocyte precursors and melanoblasts - and these melanoblasts supply both hair and skin (moving into the basal layer of...
Location of the unpigmented spots is dependent on the migration of melanoblasts (primordial pigment cells) from the neural crest to paired bilateral...
the Silkie fowl correlates with abnormal migration of fate-restricted melanoblasts and loss of environmental barrier molecules". Developmental Dynamics...
Melanocyte stem cells are called melanoblasts. Conditions associated with abnormalities in the migration of melanoblasts are known collectively as piebaldism...
The deafness is due to a reduction in the population and survival of melanoblast stem cells, which in addition to creating pigment-producing cells, develop...
pigmentation. In melanogenesis, melanoblasts migrate from the neural crest to their appropriate locations in the epidermis. Melanoblasts express the KIT receptor...
citing Foulks: "melanocytes continually arise from undifferentiated melanoblasts in the dermis during feather growth. Apparently the presence of whitetipped...
is believed to be related to the abnormal postzygotic development of melanoblasts and mutations of the NRAS gene. Neurocutaneous melanosis is associated...
leg depends on the complete migration and clonal proliferation of the melanoblasts in the mesoderm of the developing fetus, thus ensuring that limbs and...
leg depends on the complete migration and clonal proliferation of the melanoblasts in the mesoderm of the developing fetus, thus ensuring that limbs and...
various cell types and structures arising from the neural crest, such as melanoblasts, Schwann cell precursors, and dorsal root ganglia. In addition, Pax3-expressing...
Seyed-Razavi Y, Kalirai H, Insall RH, Machesky LM, Coupland SE. (2020) Melanoblasts Populate the Mouse Choroid Earlier in Development Than Previously Described...
RA (August 2005). "Candidate functional promoter variant in the FOXD3 melanoblast developmental regulator gene in autosomal dominant vitiligo". The Journal...
Bhawan J, Coluccio LM (July 2018). "Myosin X is required for efficient melanoblast migration and melanoma initiation and metastasis". Scientific Reports...
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