The slaty mutation affects the morphology and maturation of melanosomes in the mouse melanocytes

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 454-459

  Hirobe, Tomohisa ^a,b   Abe, Hiroyuki ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Culture; Golgi apparatus; Melanocyte; Melanosome; Mitochondria; Slaty

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT CELL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; MELANOSOMES; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION;

EID: 33748291416     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: 16000749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2006.00335.x     Document Type: Article

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