Cyclic oscillations in melanin composition within hairs of baboons

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 180-184

  Ito, Shosuke ^a   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^a   Matsunaga, Naoko ^b   Hearing, Vincent J ^b   Dee Carey, K ^c   Anderson, Sydney ^d   Dooley, Thomas P ^e  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e IntegriDerm Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboon; Eumelanin; Hair; Pheomelanin

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; EUMELANIN; MELANIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; PHEOMELANIN; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HAIR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; PAPIO; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; HAIR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MELANINS; PAPIO; PIGMENTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034816080     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2001.140307.x     Document Type: Article

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