How are proliferation and differentiation of melanocytes regulated?

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 462-478

  Hirobe, Tomohisa ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coat color gene; Endothelins; Fibroblast; Keratinocyte; Melanoblast; Melanocyte; Melanocyte stimulating hormone

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CYCLIC AMP; ENDOTHELIN; EUMELANIN; FATTY ACID; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IRON; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MELANIN; PHEOMELANIN; SCATTER FACTOR; STEEL FACTOR; STEROID HORMONE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFER; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; SKIN COLOR; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; KERATINOCYTES; MELANINS; MELANOSOMES; MICE; PIGMENTATION; SKIN;

EID: 79955982501     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2011.00845.x     Document Type: Article

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