The role of proopiomelanocortin-derived peptides in skin fibroblast and mast cell functions

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 885, Issue , 1999, Pages 268-276

  Teofoli, Patrizia ^a   Frezzolini, Alessandra ^a   Puddu, Pietro ^a   De Pità, Ornella ^a   Mauviel, Alain ^b   Lotti, Torello ^c  

^a LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOTROPIN; HISTAMINE; IONOMYCIN; PEPTIDE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAST CELL; NEWBORN; PREPUCE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SUPERNATANT;

EID: 0032779358     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08684.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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