Clinical, Pathological, and Etiologic Aspects of Acquired Dermal Melanocytosis

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 176-183

  Mizoguchi, Masako ^a   Murakami, Fumiko ^a   Ito, Masaru ^a   Asano, Mari ^a   Baba, Takako ^a   Kawa, Yoko ^a   Kubota, Yasuo ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

c KIT; Dermal melanocyte; Elastic fiber; Neural crest cell; TRP 2

Indexed keywords

MURINAE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DOPA; DOPACHROME ISOMERASE; ENDOTHELIN 1; ISOMERASE; SEX HORMONE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHILD; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN; SUNLIGHT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; ENDOTHELIN-1; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; JAPAN; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOSIS; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CREST; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SKIN; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 0031155578     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1997.tb00481.x     Document Type: Article

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