Constitutive gray hair in mice induced by melanocyte-specific deletion of c-Myc

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 312-325

  Pshenichnaya, Irina ^a   Schouwey, Karine ^a   Armaro, Marzia ^a   Larue, Lionel ^b,c   Knoepfler, Paul S ^d   Eisenman, Robert N ^e   Trumpp, Andreas ^f   Delmas, Véronique ^b,c   Beermann, Friedrich ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^f GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

C Myc; Conditional knockout; Melanocyte; Melanoma; N Myc; Pigment

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; HAIR DEPIGMENTATION; HAIR DISCOLORATION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR ROOT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYB; ONCOGENE C MYC; STEM CELL; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HAIR COLOR; HAIR DISEASE; METABOLISM; ONCOGENE MYC; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT DISORDER; PIGMENTATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, MYC; HAIR COLOR; HAIR DISEASES; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 84865334780     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2012.00998.x     Document Type: Article

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