Detection of proopiomelanocortin-derived antigens in normal and pathologic human skin

The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 658-666

  Slominski, Andrzej ^a,b,c,d   Wortsman, Jacobo ^a,b,c,d   Mazurkiewicz, Joseph E ^a,b,c,d   Matsuoka, Lois ^a,b,c,d   Dietrich, John ^a,b,c,d   Lawrence, Kathryn ^a,b,c,d   Gorbani, Ashkan ^a,b,c,d   Paus, Ralf ^a,b,c,d  

^a Departments of Microbiology Immunology Molecular Genetics and the Department of Anatomy Cell Biology and Neurobiology ^*  (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOTROPIN; INTERMEDIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOMA; METABOLISM; NEVUS; PSORIASIS; SCALP; SKIN; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TUMOR;

BETA-ENDORPHIN; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CORTICOTROPIN; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTES; MELANOMA; MSH; NEVUS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PSORIASIS; SCALP; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027751221     PISSN: 00222143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Endocrine, metabolic and immunologic functions of keratinocytes
2. Photobiology, physiology, and clinical applications for vitamin D
3. Interleukin 1 gene expressions in cultured human keratinocytes is augmented by ultraviolet radiation
4. Regulation of parathyroid hormone-like protein production in cultured normal and malignant keratinocytes
5. Hormonal regulation of POMC gene expression
6. Proopiomelanocortin processing in the pituitary, central nervous system, and peripheral tissues
7. Proopiomelanocortin gene is expressed in many normal human tissues and in tumors not associated with ectopic adrenocorticotropin syndrome
8. Tissue specific activity of the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) gene and expression by glucocorticoids
9. POMC gene expression in hamster and mouse melanoma cells
10. Neuropeptides such as MSH and ACTH are produced by human keratinocytes [Abstract]
11. Proopiomelanocortin expression in the skin during induced hair growth in mice
12. The Discovery of the Melanotropins: A History of Pituitary Endocrinology
13. The distribution of forms of adrenocorticotropin and beta-endorphin in normal, tumorous, and autopsy human pituitary tissues: virtual absence of 13K adrenocorticotropin
14. Coordinate control of corticotropin, β-lipotropin, and β-endorphin release in pituitary cell cultures
15. Serum concentrations of β-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in human pregnancy
16. Evidence for gamma-melanocyte stimulating hormone containing nerves and neutrophilic granulocytes in the human skin by indirect immunofluorescence
17. MSH peptides are present in mammalian skin
18. Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone immunoreactivity in melanoma cells
19. A molecular basis for bidirectional communication between the immune and neuroendocrine system
20. Proopiomelanocortin gene expression in a distinct population of rat spleen and lung leukocytes
21. Immunosuppressive effects of corticotropin and melanotropin and their possible significance in human immunodeficiency virus infection