Studies of pigment transfer between Xenopus laevis melanophores and fibroblasts in vitro and in vivo

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 136-145

  Aspengren, Sara ^a   Hedberg, Daniel ^a   Wallin, Margareta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

melanocyte stimulating hormone; Dermis; Epidermis; Fibroblast; Melanophore; Pigment transfer

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; MELANIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL GRANULE; CELL STRUCTURE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EPIDERMIS; EXOCYTOSIS; FROG; MELANOPHORE; MELANOSOME; MODEL; NONHUMAN; SKIN CELL; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SKIN PIGMENTATION; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DERMIS; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPIDERMIS; FIBROBLASTS; KERATINOCYTES; MELANINS; MELANOPHORES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PIGMENTATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33644847933     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: 16000749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2005.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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