Regulation of eumelanin/pheomelanin synthesis and visible pigmentation in melanocytes by ligands of the melanocortin 1 receptor

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 477-486

  Le Pape, Elodie ^a   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^b   Ito, Shosuke ^b   Wolber, Rainer ^c   Hearing, Vincent J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BEIERSDORF AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

MSH; ASP; Eumelanin; MC1R; Pheomelanin; PTU; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; EUMELANIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PHEOMELANIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPIGMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN; ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INSECTS; LIGANDS; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MICE; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PIGMENTATION; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1;

AGOUTI; MURINAE;

EID: 47249161236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2008.00479.x     Document Type: Article

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