New insights into the pathogenesis of vitiligo: Imbalance of epidermal cytokines at sites of lesions

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 87-92

  Moretti, Silvia ^a   Spallanzani, Adelina ^b   Amato, Lauretta ^b   Hautmann, Giuseppe ^b   Gallerani, Isabella ^b   Fabiani, Massimo ^c   Fabbri, Paolo ^b  

^a SM Nuova Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidermal microenvironment; Keratinocytes; Melanocytes

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SKIN; VITILIGO;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; KERATINOCYTES; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SKIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VITILIGO;

EID: 0036098164     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2002.1o049.x     Document Type: Article

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