Melanocytes are not absent in lesional skin of long duration vitiligo

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 407-416

  Tobin, Desmond J ^a   Swanson, Nelle N ^b   Pittelkow, Mark R ^b   Peters, Eva M ^a   Schallreuter, Karin U ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Electron microscopy; Epidermal melanin unit; Oxidative stress; Pre melanosome; Vacuolation

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPIGMENTATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; STEM CELL; VITILIGO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATALASE; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; KERATINOCYTES; LANGERHANS CELLS; MALE; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATIVE STRESS; VACUOLES; VITILIGO;

EID: 0033846352     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9896(2000)9999:9999<::AID-PATH659>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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