Inhibition of melanosome transfer from melanocytes to keratinocytes by lectins and neoglycoproteins in an in vitro model system

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 185-194

  Minwalla, Ljiljana ^a   Zhao, Yang ^a   Cornelius, James ^d   Babcock, George F ^b,d   Randall Wickett, R ^b   Caroline Le Poole, I ^c   Boissy, Raymond E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^d SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Co cultures; Skin lightening; Skin pigmentation

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; LECTIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; COCULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PIGMENTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KERATINOCYTES; LECTINS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PIGMENTATION;

EID: 0034817090     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2001.140308.x     Document Type: Article

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