Café-au-lait spots in neurofibromatosis type 1 and in healthy control individuals: Hyperpigmentation of a different kind?

Archives of Dermatological Research

Volumn 297, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 439-449

  De Schepper, Sofie ^a   Boucneau, Joachim ^a   Vander Haeghen, Yves ^a   Messiaen, Ludwine ^b   Naeyaert, Jean Marie ^a   Lambert, Jo ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Caf au lait spot; Hyperpigmentation; Mast cell; Neurofibromatosis type 1; SCF

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAFE AU LAIT SPOT; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL LEVEL; CELL POPULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAST CELL; MELANOCYTE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SOLUBILITY; SUPERNATANT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAFE-AU-LAIT SPOTS; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MALE; MAST CELLS; MELANOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; STEM CELL FACTOR;

EID: 33645725190     PISSN: 03403696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00403-006-0644-6     Document Type: Article

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