scholarly journals Analysis of neural crest–derived clones reveals novel aspects of facial development

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. e1600060 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marketa Kaucka ◽  
Evgeny Ivashkin ◽  
Daniel Gyllborg ◽  
Tomas Zikmund ◽  
Marketa Tesarova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Crest ◽  
Neural Crest Cells ◽  
Limb Bud ◽  
Cellular Mechanisms ◽  
Facial Region ◽  
Mouse Mutants ◽  
The Face ◽  
Analysis Computer ◽  
Cranial Neural Crest Cells ◽  
Facial Development

Cranial neural crest cells populate the future facial region and produce ectomesenchyme-derived tissues, such as cartilage, bone, dermis, smooth muscle, adipocytes, and many others. However, the contribution of individual neural crest cells to certain facial locations and the general spatial clonal organization of the ectomesenchyme have not been determined. We investigated how neural crest cells give rise to clonally organized ectomesenchyme and how this early ectomesenchyme behaves during the developmental processes that shape the face. Using a combination of mouse and zebrafish models, we analyzed individual migration, cell crowd movement, oriented cell division, clonal spatial overlapping, and multilineage differentiation. The early face appears to be built from multiple spatially defined overlapping ectomesenchymal clones. During early face development, these clones remain oligopotent and generate various tissues in a given location. By combining clonal analysis, computer simulations, mouse mutants, and live imaging, we show that facial shaping results from an array of local cellular activities in the ectomesenchyme. These activities mostly involve oriented divisions and crowd movements of cells during morphogenetic events. Cellular behavior that can be recognized as individual cell migration is very limited and short-ranged and likely results from cellular mixing due to the proliferation activity of the tissue. These cellular mechanisms resemble the strategy behind limb bud morphogenesis, suggesting the possibility of common principles and deep homology between facial and limb outgrowth.

scholarly journals Mitf-family transcription factor function is required within cranial neural crest cells to promote choroid fissure closure

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie L. Sinagoga ◽  
Alessandra M. Larimer-Picciani ◽  
Stephanie M. George ◽  
Samantha A. Spencer ◽  
James A. Lister ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Factors ◽  
Neural Crest ◽  
Neural Crest Cells ◽  
Cranial Neural Crest ◽  
Cellular Mechanisms ◽  
Optic Cup ◽  
Summary Statement ◽  
Cranial Neural Crest Cells ◽  
And Function ◽  
Choroid Fissure

AbstractA critical step in eye development is closure of the choroid fissure (CF), a transient structure in the ventral optic cup through which vasculature enters the eye and ganglion cell axons exit. While many factors have been identified that function during CF closure, the molecular and cellular mechanisms mediating this process remain poorly understood. Failure of CF closure results in colobomas. Recently, MITF was shown to be mutated in a subset of human coloboma patients, but how MITF functions during CF closure is unknown. To address this question, zebrafish with mutations in mitfa and tfec, two members of the Mitf-family of transcription factors, were analyzed and their functions during CF closure determined. mitfa;tfec mutants possess severe colobomas and our data demonstrate that Mitf activity is required within cranial neural crest cells (cNCCs) to facilitate CF closure. In the absence of Mitf function, cNCC migration and localization in the optic cup are perturbed. These data shed light on the cellular mechanisms underlying colobomas in patients with MITF mutations and identify a novel role for Mitf function in cNCCs during CF closure.Summary StatementMitf-family transcription factors act within cranial neural crest cells to promote choroid fissure closure. Without Mitf-family function, cNCC localization and function in the CF is disrupted, thus contributing to colobomas.

Laser capture microdissection of fluorescently labeled embryonic cranial neural crest cells

genesis ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasker Bhattacherjee ◽  
Partha Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Saurabh Singh ◽  
Emily A. Roberts ◽  
Rita C. Hackmiller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Crest ◽  
Laser Capture Microdissection ◽  
Neural Crest Cells ◽  
Cranial Neural Crest ◽  
Cranial Neural Crest Cells ◽  
Laser Capture

The developmental fate of the cephalic mesoderm in quail-chick chimeras

Development ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.F. Couly ◽  
P.M. Coltey ◽  
N.M. Le Douarin
Keyword(s):  
Neural Crest ◽  
Neural Crest Cells ◽  
Paraxial Mesoderm ◽  
Avian Embryo ◽  
Facial Skeleton ◽  
Developmental Fate ◽  
Prechordal Mesoderm ◽  
The Face ◽  
Neural Crest Origin ◽  
Neurula Stage

The developmental fate of the cephalic paraxial and prechordal mesoderm at the late neurula stage (3-somite) in the avian embryo has been investigated by using the isotopic, isochronic substitution technique between quail and chick embryos. The territories involved in the operation were especially tiny and the size of the transplants was of about 150 by 50 to 60 microns. At that stage, the neural crest cells have not yet started migrating and the fate of mesodermal cells exclusively was under scrutiny. The prechordal mesoderm was found to give rise to the following ocular muscles: musculus rectus ventralis and medialis and musculus oblicus ventralis. The paraxial mesoderm was separated in two longitudinal bands: one median, lying upon the cephalic vesicles (median paraxial mesoderm—MPM); one lateral, lying upon the foregut (lateral paraxial mesoderm—LPM). The former yields the three other ocular muscles, contributes to mesencephalic meninges and has essentially skeletogenic potencies. It contributes to the corpus sphenoid bone, the orbitosphenoid bone and the otic capsules; the rest of the facial skeleton is of neural crest origin. At 3-somite stage, MPM is represented by a few cells only. The LPM is more abundant at that stage and has essentially myogenic potencies with also some contribution to connective tissue. However, most of the connective cells associated with the facial and hypobranchial muscles are of neural crest origin. The more important result of this work was to show that the cephalic mesoderm does not form dermis. This function is taken over by neural crest cells, which form both the skeleton and dermis of the face. If one draws a parallel between the so-called “somitomeres” of the head and the trunk somites, it appears that skeletogenic potencies are reduced in the former, which in contrast have kept their myogenic capacities, whilst the formation of skeleton and dermis has been essentially taken over by the neural crest in the course of evolution of the vertebrate head.

scholarly journals Cranial neural crest cells on the move: Their roles in craniofacial development

2010 ◽  
Vol 155 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwight R. Cordero ◽  
Samantha Brugmann ◽  
Yvonne Chu ◽  
Ruchi Bajpai ◽  
Maryam Jame ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Crest ◽  
Neural Crest Cells ◽  
Craniofacial Development ◽  
Cranial Neural Crest ◽  
Cranial Neural Crest Cells
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