Murine cutaneous mastocytosis and epidermal melanocytosis induced by keratinocyte expression of transgenic stem cell factor

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1565-1573

  Kunisada, Takahiro ^a   Lu, Shu Zhuang ^b   Yoshida, Hisahiro ^c   Nishikawa, Satomi ^c   Nishikawa, Shin Ichi ^c   Mizoguchi, Masako ^d   Hayashi, Shin Ichi ^a   Tyrrell, Lynda ^b   Williams, David A ^e,f   Wang, Xiaomei ^h   Longley, B Jack ^b,g,h  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Yale Skin Disease Research Center   (United States)

^h NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

c KIT; Mast cell; Mastocytosis; Melanocyte development; Stem cell factor

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; MAST CELL; MASTOCYTOSIS; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CELL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MASTOCYTOSIS; MELANOSIS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; STEM CELL FACTOR;

EID: 0032543210     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.187.10.1565     Document Type: Article

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