[HTML][HTML] Cranial neural crest migration: new rules for an old road

PM Kulesa, CM Bailey, JC Kasemeier-Kulesa… - Developmental …, 2010 - Elsevier
The neural crest serve as an excellent model to better understand mechanisms of
embryonic cell migration. Cell tracing studies have shown that cranial neural crest cells (CNCCs) …

Reprogramming multipotent tumor cells with the embryonic neural crest microenvironment

JC KasemeierKulesa, JM Teddy… - Developmental …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The embryonic microenvironment is an important source of signals that program multipotent
cells to adopt a particular fate and migratory path, yet its potential to reprogram and restrict …

Reprogramming metastatic melanoma cells to assume a neural crest cell-like phenotype in an embryonic microenvironment

PM Kulesa, JC Kasemeier-Kulesa… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Human metastatic melanoma cells express a dedifferentiated, plastic phenotype, which may
serve as a selective advantage, because melanoma cells invade various microenvironments…

Imaging neural crest cell dynamics during formation of dorsal root ganglia and sympathetic ganglia

JC Kasemeier-Kulesa, PM Kulesa, F Lefcort - 2005 - journals.biologists.com
The neural crest is a migratory population of cells that produces many diverse structures within
the embryo. Trunk neural crest cells give rise to such structures as the dorsal root ganglia …

CXCR4 controls ventral migration of sympathetic precursor cells

JC Kasemeier-Kulesa, R McLennan… - Journal of …, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
The molecular mechanisms that sort migrating neural crest cells (NCCs) along a shared
pathway into two functionally discrete structures, the dorsal root ganglia and sympathetic …

[HTML][HTML] Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) regulates cranial neural crest migration in vivo

R McLennan, JM Teddy, JC Kasemeier-Kulesa… - Developmental …, 2010 - Elsevier
The neural crest is an excellent model to study embryonic cell migration, since cell behaviors
can be studied in vivo with advanced optical imaging and molecular intervention. What is …

Eph/ephrins and N-cadherin coordinate to control the pattern of sympathetic ganglia

JC Kasemeier-Kulesa, R Bradley, EB Pasquale… - 2006 - journals.biologists.com
… microscopy, we described in detail the spatiotemporal migration of chick neural crest cells
through the somites and their arrival at sympathetic ganglion target sites(Kasemeier-Kulesa et …

Neural crest cells bulldoze through the microenvironment using Aquaporin 1 to stabilize filopodia

…, JA Morrison, JC Kasemeier-Kulesa… - …, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Neural crest migration requires cells to move through an environment filled with dense
extracellular matrix and mesoderm to reach targets throughout the vertebrate embryo. Here, we …

The migration of autonomic precursor cells in the embryo

PM Kulesa, F Lefcort, JC Kasemeier-Kulesa - Autonomic Neuroscience, 2009 - Elsevier
The neural crest is an excellent model system to study cell fate and cell guidance signaling.
Neural crest cells emerge from a common multipotent subpopulation and since the …

[HTML][HTML] TrkB/BDNF signalling patterns the sympathetic nervous system

JC Kasemeier-Kulesa, JA Morrison, F Lefcort… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
… Embryos for immunohistochemistry were fixed as above and processed as in Kasemeier-Kulesa
et al. . Primary antibodies included: HNK-1 (1:500, NC cell marker; American Type …