Developmental Neuroscience
Antibodies and Assays
Nervous system complexity requires an intricate, precise developmental plan. Patterns of cell differentiation, signaling, migration, neurite outgrowth, and synapse formation occur across diverse central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS) regions with unparalleled choreography.
Developmental neuroscience has a long history. Recent advances in protein isolation and molecular biology have greatly improved the identification of neural-specific developmental processes and allowed significant advances in the field. As a result, novel neural proteins involved in development and maturation of the various systems account for a significant portion of the new targets studied to date.
Breakthrough studies in developmental neuroscience have shown that neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes arise from neural stem cells has created new opportunities for treating central nervous system diseases, including Parkinson’s Disease.
With the broad array of developmental neuroscience antibodies, assays, and immunodetection techniques now available, and with the addition of emerging technologies in genetics and epigenetics, researchers are rapidly revealing the basic processes underlying brain development.
