Skin POMC peptides: Their binding affinities and activation of the human MC1 receptor

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 885, Issue , 1999, Pages 466-469

  Tsatmalia, Marina ^a,b   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^a,c   Graham, Alison J ^a   Thody, Anthony J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CORTICOTROPIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

BINDING AFFINITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEASUREMENT; MELANOGENESIS; SKIN;

EID: 0032763673     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08714.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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