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Melanocortin 1 receptor targeted imaging of melanoma with gold nanocages and positron emission tomography [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose: Melanoma is a lethal skin cancer with unmet clinical needs for targeted imaging and therapy. Nanoscale materials conjugated with targeting components have shown great potential to improve tumor delivery efficiency while minimizing undesirable ...
Black, Kvar, Detering, Lisa, Liu, Yongjian, Luehmann, Hannah, Pang, Bo, Sultan, Deborah, Xia, Younan, Yang, Miaoxin, Zhao, Yongfeng   +8 more
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Plasticity of differentiated cells in wound repair and tumorigenesis, Part II: Skin and intestine [PDF]

, 2018
Recent studies have identified and begun to characterize the roles of regenerative cellular plasticity in many organs. In Part I of our two-part Review, we discussed how cells reprogram following injury to the stomach and pancreas.
Burclaff, Joseph, Mills, Jason C
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Differential Signaling Profiles of MC4R Mutations with Three Different Ligands [PDF]

, 2020
The melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) is a key player in hypothalamic weight regulation and energy expenditure as part of the leptin-melanocortin pathway. Mutations in this G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) are the most common cause for monogenetic obesity,
Annibale, Paolo, Biebermann, Heike, Dimitriou, Ioanna Maria, Krude, Heiko, Kühnen, Peter, Lohse, Martin J., Paisdzior, Sarah, Scheerer, Patrick, Schöpe, Paul Curtis   +8 more
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Temporally Regulated Neural Crest Transcription Factors Distinguish Neuroectodermal Tumors of Varying Malignancy and Differentiation

Neoplasia: An International Journal for Oncology Research, 2005
Neuroectodermal tumor cells, like neural crest (NC) cells, are pluripotent, proliferative, and migratory. We tested the hypothesis that genetic programs essential to NC development are activated in neuroectodermal tumors.
Timothy R. Gershon, Orit Oppenheimer, Steven S. Chin, William L. Gerald   +3 more
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Regulation of zebrafish melanocyte development by ligand-dependent BMP signaling

eLife, 2019
Preventing terminal differentiation is important in the development and progression of many cancers including melanoma. Recent identification of the BMP ligand GDF6 as a novel melanoma oncogene showed GDF6-activated BMP signaling suppresses ...
Alec K Gramann, Arvind M Venkatesan, Melissa Guerin, Craig J Ceol   +3 more
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High correlation between skin color based on CIELAB color space, epidermal melanocyte ratio, and melanocyte melanin content [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
Background To treat skin color disorders, such as vitiligo or burns, melanocytes are transplanted for tissue regeneration. However, melanocyte distribution in the human body varies with age and location, making it difficult to select the optimal donor ...
Wen-Shyan Huang, Yi-Wen Wang, Kun-Che Hung, Pai-Shan Hsieh, Keng-Yen Fu, Lien-Guo Dai, Nien-Hsien Liou, Kuo-Hsing Ma, Jiang-Chuan Liu, Niann-Tzyy Dai   +9 more
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Mechanical Properties of Growing Melanocytic Nevi and the Progression to Melanoma [PDF]

, 2014
Melanocytic nevi are benign proliferations that sometimes turn into malignant melanoma in a way that is still unclear from the biochemical and genetic point of view.
Alemi, Alexander A., Ciusani, Emilio, La Porta, Caterina A. M., Sethna, James P., Taloni, Alessandro, Zapperi, Stefano   +5 more
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Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer [PDF]

, 2002
Cancers arise owing to the accumulation of mutations in critical genes that alter normal programmes of cell proliferation, differentiation and death. As the first stage of a systematic genome-wide screen for these genes, we have prioritized for analysis ...
Bignell, G.R., Bigner, D.D., Bottomley, W., Chenevix-Trench, G., Clegg, S., Cooper, C., Cossu, A., Cox, C., Darrow, T.L., Davies, H., Davis, N., Dicks, E., Edkins, S., Ewing, R., Flanagan, A., Floyd, Y., Futreal, P.A., Garnett, M.J., Gray, K., Gusterson, B.A., Hall, S., Hargrave, D., Hawes, R., Ho, J.W.C., Hooper, S., Hughes, J., Jayatilake, H., Kosmidou, V., Leung, S.Y., Maitland, N., Marais, R., Marshall, C.J., Menzies, A., Mould, C., Nicholson, A., Palmieri, G., Parker, A., Paterson, H., Pritchard-Jones, K., Riggins, G.J., Seigler, H.F., Shipley, J., Stephens, P., Stevens, C., Stratton, M.R., Teague, J., Watt, S., Weber, B.L., Wilson, R., Woffendin, H., Wooster, R., Yuen, S.T.   +51 more
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Keratinocytes regulate the function of melanocytes

Dermatologica Sinica, 2014
Mammalian keratinocytes compose the bulk of the epithelium, undergo keratinization, and form the dead superficial layer of the skin. These superficial keratinized cells are continuously replaced by cells derived from mitotic cells in the lowest layer of ...
Tomohisa Hirobe
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Type II Opsins in the Eye, the Pineal Complex and the Skin of Xenopus laevis: Using Changes in Skin Pigmentation as a Readout of Visual and Circadian Activity

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2022
The eye, the pineal complex and the skin are important photosensitive organs. The African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, senses light from the environment and adjusts skin color accordingly.
Gabriel E. Bertolesi, Nilakshi Debnath, Hannan R. Malik, Lawrence L. H. Man, Sarah McFarlane   +4 more
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