Pigment cell signalling for physiological color change

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Physiology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1135-1144

  Nery, Luiz Eduardo Maia ^a,b   Castrucci, Ana Maria De Lauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Calcium; cAMP; Cellular signalling; Chromatophore; Physiological color change; Protein phosphorylation; Protein kinase A; Protein kinase C

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C;

CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MIGRATION; CHROMATOPHORE; MELANOPHORE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN COLOR;

ANIMALS; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0031416007     PISSN: 03009629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9629(97)00045-5     Document Type: Review

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