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crest
(redirected from neural crest)

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While the salivary glands themselves are mesodermal in origin, endocrine cells may be found within these glands, most likely derived from embryonic neural crest cells of the diffuse neuroendocrine system.
Caltech: Handful of researchers pursuing various lines of inquiry, including the role that neural crest cells may play in birth defects and cancer
Although scientists have long believed that Ewing's sarcoma is a cancer of the bone, recent research has shown that it develops in tissue which can be traced back to the so-called neural crest region of the embryo.
 
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