Publications
Selected Papers
Le Douarin, N. M. 1969. Particularités du noyau interphasique chez la Caille japonaise (Coturnix coturnix japonica). Utilisation de ces particularités comme "marquage biologique" dans les recherches sur les interactions tissulaires et les migrations cellulaires au cours de l’ontogenèse. Bull. Biol. Fr. Belg. 103: 435-452.
Le Douarin, N. M. and Teillet, M.-A. 1973. The migration of neural crest cells to the wall of the digestive tract in avian embryo. J. Embryol. Exp. Morphol. 30: 31-48.
Guillemot, F.P., Oliver, P.D., Peault, B.M., and Le Douarin, N.M. 1984. Cells expressing antigens in the avian thymus. J. Exp. Med. 160, 1803-1819.
Rong, P.M., Ziller, C., Pena-Melian, A., and Le Douarin, N.M. 1987. A monoclonal antibody specific for avian early myogenic cells and differentiated muscle. Dev. Biol. 122, 338-353.
Dulac, C., Cameron-Curry, P., Ziller, C., and Le Douarin, N.M. 1988. A surface protein exposed by avian myelinating and nonmyelinating Schwann cells but not by satellite or enteric glial cells. Neuron 1, 211-220.
Le Douarin, N. and Smith, J. 1988. Development of the peripheral nervous system from the neural crest. Annu. Rev. Cell Biol. 4: 375-404.
Pourquié, O., Coltey, M., Thomas, J.L., and Le Douarin, N.M. 1990. A widely distributed antigen developmentally regulated in the nervous system. Development 109, 743-752.
Baroffio, A., Dupin, E. and Le Douarin, N. M. 1991. Common precursors for neural and mesectodermal derivatives in the cephalic neural crest. Development 112: 301-305.
Dulac, C., Tropak, M.B., Cameron-Curry, P., Rossier, J., Marshak, D.R., Roder, J., and Le Douarin, N.M. 1992. Molecular characterization of the Schwann cell myelin protein, SMP: Structural similarities within the immunoglobulin family. Neuron 8, 323-334.
Nataf, V., Mercier, P., Ziller, C., and Le Douarin, N.M. 1993. Novel markers of melanocyte differentiation in the avian embryo. Exp. Cell Res. 207, 171-182.
Couly, G. F., Coulty, P. M., and Le Douarin, N. M. 1993. The triple origin of the skull in higher vertebrates: A study in quail-chick chimeras. Development 117: 409 - 429.
Le Douarin, N. M., Dupin, E., and Ziller, C. 1994. Genetic and epigenetic control in neural crest development. Curr. Opin. Genet. Devel. 4: 685-695.
Catala, M., Teillet, M.-A., De Robertis, E. M. and Le Douarin, N. M. 1996. A spinal cord fate map in the avian embryo: while regressing, Hensen’s node lays down the notochord and floor plate thus joining the spinal cord lateral walls. Development 122: 2599-2610.
Baker C. V., Bronner-Fraser, M., Le Douarin, N. M., and Teillet, M. A. 1997. Early- and late-migrating cranial neural crest cell populations have equivalent developmental potential in vivo. Development. 124: 3077-3087.
Major Works
1975 Tracing of Cells of the Avian Thymus through Embryonic Life in Interspecific Chimaeras (with F. Jotereau)
1982 The Neural Crest
1985 Mapping of the Early Neural Primordium in Quail-Chick Chimaeras: I. Developmental Relationship between Placodes, Facial Ectoderm and Proscephalon (with G. F. Couly)
1986 Post-natal Development of a Demyelinating Disease in Avian Spinal Cord Chimaeras (with M. Kinutani and M. Coltey)
Books
Le Douarin, N., and A. McLaren, (eds). 1987. Chimeras in Developmental Biology. Academic Press.
Le Douarin, N., and C. Kalcheim, 1999. The Neural Crest. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press.