Conditional immortalization establishes a repertoire of mouse melanocyte progenitors with distinct melanogenic differentiation potential

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2479-2483

  Yang, Ke ^a,b   Chen, Jin ^b,c   Jiang, Wei ^b   Huang, Enyi ^b,d   Cui, Jing ^b,c   Kim, Stephanie H ^b   Hu, Ning ^b,c   Liu, Hong ^b,c   Zhang, Wenwen ^b,c   Li, Ruidong ^b,c   Chen, Xiang ^b,e   Kong, Yuhan ^b,c   Zhang, Jiye ^b,c   Wang, Jinhua ^b,c   Wang, Linyuan ^b   Shen, Jikun ^b   Luu, Hue H ^b   Haydon, Rex C ^b   Lian, Xiaohua ^a   Yang, Tian ^a   He, Tong Chuan ^b,c   more..

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPACHROME TAUTOMERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MELANIN; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; LETTER; MELANOCYTE; MELANOCYTE STEM CELL; MELANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL;

EID: 84866401312     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2012.145     Document Type: Letter

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