Pigment Cell Research: What Directions?

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 5-11

  Prota, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coat color genetics; Melanin related metabolites; Melanocyte function; Melanogenesis; Melanoma; Pheomelanin; Red hair; Skin photoprotection; UV susceptibility

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SKIN;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; RESEARCH; SKIN;

EID: 0031064597     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1997.tb00460.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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