Neuroendocrine functions of melanocytes: Beyond the skin-deep melanin maker

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 211, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 201-221

  Takeda, Kazuhisa ^a   Takahashi, Na Ho ^a   Shibahara, Shigeki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heme; Hypoxia; Lipocalin type prostaglandin D synthase; Melanocyte; Microphthalmia associated transcription factor

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BETA ENDORPHIN; BILIRUBIN; CISPLATIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORTICOTROPIN; CYSTEINYLDOPA; DOPA; DOPAMINE; EUMELANIN; LIPOCALIN; MELANIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NEUROMELANIN; PHEOMELANIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROSTAGLANDIN D SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; PROSTAGLANDIN H2; PROSTANOID; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; THYROID HORMONE;

BREATHING PATTERN; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CHLOASMA; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HAIR DISCOLORATION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; ISOMERIZATION; LENTIGO; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OCULOCUTANEOUS ALBINISM; PATHOGENESIS; RESPIRATION CONTROL; REVIEW; SLEEP PATTERN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WAARDENBURG SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NEURONS; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; SKIN; STRESS;

EID: 33947710865     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.211.201     Document Type: Review

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