Changes of melanosome morphology associated with the differentiation of epidermal melanocytes in slaty mice

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 981-993

  Hirobe, Tomohisa ^a   Abe, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

DOPACHROME ISOMERASE; ISOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; MELANOCYTES; MELANOSOMES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION;

EID: 34548738992     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20547     Document Type: Article

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