Inhibiting roles of melanin-concentrating hormone for skin pigment dispersion in barfin flounder, Verasper moseri

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-81

  Mizusawa, Kanta ^a   Kobayashi, Yuki ^a   Sunuma, Toshikazu ^a,c   Asahida, Takashi ^a   Saito, Yumiko ^b   Takahashi, Akiyoshi ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Ishikawa Prefectural Government   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flounder; MCH receptor; Melanin concentrating hormone; Melanocyte stimulating hormone; Melanophores; Pigment migration; Xanthophores

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIN; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARFIN FLOUNDER; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS CELL; FLOUNDER; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MELANOPHORE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; XANTHOPHORE;

EID: 79951513471     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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