Repigmentation of the epidermis around the acrosyringium in piebald skin: An ultrastructural examination

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 910-912

  Makino, T ^a   Yanagihara, M ^b   Oiso, N ^c   Mizawa, M ^a   Shimizu, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b Shinseikai Toyama Hospital   (Japan)

^c KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KIT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CASE REPORT; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; KERATINOCYTE; LETTER; MALE; PIEBALDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TONOFILAMENT;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDERMIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MUTATION; PIEBALDISM; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SWEAT GLANDS;

EID: 84875462412     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: 13652133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjd.12116     Document Type: Letter

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