Antimelanogenic activity of hydrocoumarins in cultured normal human melanocytes by stimulating intracellular glutathione synthesis

Archives of Dermatological Research

Volumn 294, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 349-354

  Yamamura, Tatsuo ^a   Onishi, Junichi ^b   Nishiyama, Tomihiro ^b  

^a Noevir Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antimelanogenesis; Glutathione; Hydrocoumarin; Tyrosinase; Tocopherol

Indexed keywords

7 ALLYL 6 HYDROXY 4,4,5,8 TETRAMETHYLHYDROCOUMARIN; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; FREE RADICAL; GLUTATHIONE; HYDROCOUMARIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PEROXY RADICAL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SINGLET OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; 2,2-DIPHENYL-1-PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ANTIOXIDANT; MELANIN; PICRIC ACID; SCAVENGER;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; METABOLISM;

ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANTS; CELLS, CULTURED; COUMARINS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; FREE RADICALS; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; PICRATES;

EID: 0036428716     PISSN: 03403696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00403-002-0345-8     Document Type: Article

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