The increased incidence of malignant melanoma in obese individuals is due to impaired melanogenesis and melanocyte DNA repair

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 533-535

  Morpurgo, Giorgio ^a   Fioretti, Bernard ^a   Catacuzzeno, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; ATTRACTIN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; INTERMEDIN; LEPTIN; MELANOCORTOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; MELANOCORTOTROPIN RECEPTOR 4; MELANOCYTE CONCENTRATING HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADIPOCYTE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; DNA REPAIR; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOMA; MUTATION; OBESITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WEIGHT CONTROL;

AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN; AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY;

AGOUTI;

EID: 84858151042     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2012.01.028     Document Type: Article

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