Effects of melanogenesis-inducing nitric oxide and histamine on the production of eumelanin and pheomelanin in cultured human melanocytes

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 81-84

  Lassalle, Michael W ^a   Igarashi, Shigeru ^a   Sasaki, Minoru ^a   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^b   Ito, Shosuke ^b   Horikoshi, Toshio ^a  

^a KANEBO LTD   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

MSH; Eumelanin; Histamine; Nitric oxide; Pheomelanin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; EUMELANIN; HISTAMINE; MELANIN; NITRIC OXIDE; PHEOMELANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROLYSIS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; OXIDATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ALPHA-MSH; CELLS, CULTURED; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; NITRIC OXIDE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0037568427     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2003.00004.x     Document Type: Article

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