Transcription of melanogenesis enzymes in melanocytes: Dependence upon culture conditions and co-cultivation with keratinocytes

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 179-184

  Kippenberger, Stefan ^a,b   Bernd, August ^a   Bereiter Hahn, Jürgen ^b   Ramirez Bosca, Ana ^a   Kaufmann, Roland ^a   Holzmann, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Co culture; Melanocytes; TRP 1; TRP 2; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

DOPACHROME ISOMERASE; ISOMERASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN; TYROSINASE-RELATED PROTEIN; TYRP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; COCULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOCYTE; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SKIN;

COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; ISOMERASES; KERATINOCYTES; MELANOCYTES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; SKIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030203006     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1996.tb00107.x     Document Type: Article

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