The amphibian melanization inhibiting factor (MIF) blocks the α-MSH effect on mouse malignant melanocytes

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 311-316

  López Contreras, Ana M ^a   Martínez Liarte, José H ^a   Solano, Francisco ^a   Samaraweera, Preminda ^b   Newton, J M ^b   Bagnara, Joseph T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian skin peptides; Mammalian melanocytes; Melanogenesis; MSH; Pigmentation

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; RANA FORRERI;

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; DOPACHROME ISOMERASE; ISOMERASE; MELANIN; MELANOSTATIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; THEOPHYLLINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FROG; MELANOCYTE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; ISOMERASES; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MSH RELEASE-INHIBITING HORMONE; RANIDAE; THEOPHYLLINE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0030325193     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1996.tb00123.x     Document Type: Article

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