Estrogen increases hair pigmentation in female recessive yellow mice

Zoological Science

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 470-476

  Hirobe, Tomohisa ^a,b   Kiuchi, Megumi ^b   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^c   Ito, Shosuke ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

eumelanin; Mc1r; melanocyte; pheomelanin; recessive yellow; sex hormone

Indexed keywords

DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL 17-ACETATE; ESTRADIOL ACETATE; EUMELANIN; MELANIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; PHEOMELANIN; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HAIR; HAIR COLOR; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTATION; PIGMENTATION; RECESSIVE GENE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HAIR; HAIR COLOR; MALE; MELANINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; PIGMENTATION; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 77954487039     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.27.470     Document Type: Article

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