Innervation of melanocytes in human skin

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1385-1395

  Hara, Masahiro ^a   Toyoda, Masahiko ^a   Yaar, Mina ^a   Bhawan, Jag ^a   Avila, Elena M ^a   Penner, Ian R ^a   Gilchrest, Barbara A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CONTACT; DNA SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOCYTE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY; TUMOR PROMOTION;

CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CELL DIVISION; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYCLIC AMP; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LASERS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE ENDINGS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PIGMENTATION; PROTEINS; SKIN;

EID: 0029854120     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.184.4.1385     Document Type: Article

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