Ethnic variation in tyrosinase and TYRP1 expression in photoexposed and photoprotected human skin

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-42

  Alaluf, Simon ^a,b   Barrett, Karen ^a   Blount, Margaret ^a   Carter, Nik ^a  

^a UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Unipath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour; Endothelin; Melanin; Melanocortin; Melanocyte; P protein

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ENDOTHELIN 1; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN PROTECTION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ENDOTHELIN-1; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037906585     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2003.00005.x     Document Type: Article

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