Pheomelanin production in the epidermis from newborn agouti mice is induced by the expression of the agouti gene in the dermis

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 506-514

  Hirobe, Tomohisa ^a,b   Takeuchi, Sakae ^c   Hotta, Eri ^c   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^d   Ito, Shosuke ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

5; 5 S Cysteinyldopa; 5 tricarboxylic acid; 6 Dihydroxyindole 2 carboxylic acid; Aminohydroxyphenylalanine; Keratinocyte; Melanin; Melanoblast; Pyrrole 2, 3

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINYLDOPA; MELANIN; PHEOMELANIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGOUTI GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYSTEINYLDOPA; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; KERATINOCYTES; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MICE; RNA, MESSENGER;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA;

EID: 4644229809     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2004.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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