A critical appraisal of vitiligo etiologic theories. Is melanocyte loss a melanocytorrhagy?

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 322-332

  Gauthier, Yvon ^a   Andre, Muriel Carlo ^b   Taïeb, Alain ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANDRÉ   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Antioxidants; Apoptosis; Dendricty; Melanocyte; Pathophysiology; Vitiligo

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DESTRUCTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DENDRITE; DEPIGMENTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTORRHAGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VITILIGO;

CELL ADHESION; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MELANOCYTES; NECROSIS; VITILIGO;

EID: 0042697497     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2003.00070.x     Document Type: Review

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