Melanocytes expressing MC1R polymorphisms associated with red hair color have altered MSH-ligand activated pigmentary responses in coculture with keratinocytes

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 344-355

  Roberts, Donald W ^a,b   Newton, Richard A ^a   Leonard, J Helen ^b   Sturm, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPACHROME TAUTOMERASE; INTERMEDIN DERIVATIVE; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCIUM; DOPACHROME ISOMERASE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; INTERMEDIN; ISOMERASE; LIGAND; MSH, 4 NLE 7 PHE ALPHA; MSH, 4-NLE-7-PHE-ALPHA-; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STRUCTURE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOCYTE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; RED HAIR COLOR; SKIN; SKIN CANCER; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITIC CELL; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OSMOLARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ALPHA-MSH; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCIUM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DENDRITIC CELLS; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; KERATINOCYTES; LIGANDS; MELANOCYTE-STIMULATING HORMONES; MELANOCYTES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN PIGMENTATION; UP-REGULATION; VIMENTIN;

EID: 40949154726     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21318     Document Type: Article

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