Human melanocortin 1 receptor variants, receptor function and melanocyte response to UV radiation

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2349-2355

  Scott, M Cathy ^a   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^a   Ito, Shosuke ^a   Kadekaro, Ana Luisa ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuhiko ^a   Groden, Juanna ^a   Kavanagh, Renny ^a   Takakuwa, Takako ^a   Virador, Victor ^a   Hearing, Vincent J ^a   Abdel Malek, Zalfa A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Human melanocytes; MC1R variants; Melanocortin 1 receptor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; CYCLIC AMP; CYSTINE; HISTIDINE; MELANIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; METHIONINE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; TRYPTOPHAN; VALINE; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; EUMELANIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; PHEOMELANIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; NEWBORN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; SKIN CANCER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDERMIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN TUMOR;

ALPHA-MSH; CELL DEATH; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLIC AMP; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPIDERMIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN;

EID: 0036591966     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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