Uveal melanocytes do not respond to or express receptors for α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4507-4512

  Li, Li ^a   Hu, Dan Ning ^b   Zhao, Huiquan ^a   McCormick, Steven A ^b   Nordlund, James J ^a   Boissy, Raymond E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CATECHOL OXIDASE; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 2; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; DOPACHROME ISOMERASE; ISOMERASE; MELANIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TYRP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CELL GROWTH; CELL LEVEL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRIS; MELANOCYTE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UVEA; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EYE COLOR; METABOLISM; SKIN;

ALPHA-MSH; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; EYE COLOR; HUMANS; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SKIN; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; UVEA;

EID: 33750598813     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0391     Document Type: Article

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