Human Melanocytes as a Target Tissue for Hormones: In Vitro Studies with 1α-25, dihydroxyvitamin D3, α-melanocyte Stimulating Hormone, and Beta-estradiol

THE ATTRACTIONS OF PROTEINS FOR SMALL MOLECULES AND IONS

1949 • 19,979 citations

Unique Biosynthesis by Kidney of a Biologically Active Vitamin D Metabolite

1970 • 1,281 citations

INCREASED SKIN PIGMENT REDUCES THE CAPACITY OF SKIN TO SYNTHESISE VITAMIN D3

1982 • 1,154 citations

Differentiation of mouse myeloid leukemia cells induced by 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3.

1981 • 1,025 citations

1,25-DIHYDROXYVITAMIN D₃AND MALIGNANT MELANOMA: THE PRESENCE OF RECEPTORS AND INHIBITION OF CELL GROWTH IN CULTURE

1981 • 560 citations

Selective proliferation of normal human melanocytes in vitro in the presence of phorbol ester and cholera toxin.

1982 • 552 citations

Simple and rapid fluorimetric method for DNA microassay

1977 • 491 citations

The Tyrosine Hydroxylase Activity of Mammalian Tyrosinase

1966 • 360 citations

Effect of Alpha- and Beta-Melanocyte Stimulating Hormones on the Skin Colour of Man

1961 • 328 citations

Suppression of in vivo growth of human cancer solid tumor xenografts by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3.

1987 • 312 citations

Regulation of melanin synthesis of B16 mouse melanoma cells by 1 alpha, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and retinoic acid.

1985 • 288 citations

Regulation of tyrosinase in human melanocytes grown in culture.

1983 • 288 citations

1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 production by human keratinocytes. Kinetics and regulation.

1986 • 267 citations

ŒSTROGEN RECEPTORS IN HUMAN MALIGNANT MELANOMA

1976 • 220 citations

Selective elimination of fibroblasts from cultures of normal human melanocytes

1984 • 183 citations

Steroid Hormone Receptors and the Nucleus*

1985 • 181 citations

Presence of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptors in established human cancer cell lines in culture.

1982 • 136 citations

The Effect of Large Doses of Estrogen and Estrogen and Progesterone on Melanin Pigmentation**From the Department of Anatomy, Medical School King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Durham, England.

1960 • 122 citations

1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D Resistance, Rickets, and Alopecia: Analysis of Receptors and Bioresponse in Cultured Fibroblasts from Patients and Parents*

1984 • 84 citations

Incidence of Estrogen Receptor in Benign Nevi and Human Malignant Melanoma

1980 • 67 citations

Studies of the internalization of vitamin D3 metabolites by cultured osteogenic sarcoma cells and their application to a non-chromatographic cytoreceptor assay for 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3

1980 • 63 citations

Melanotropin potentiating factor is the C-terminal tetrapeptide of human β-lipotropin

1979 • 55 citations

Studies on the Cloudman melanoma cell line as a model for the action of MSH.

1985 • 50 citations

Estrogen receptor in malignant melanoma: Fact or artefact?

1983 • 47 citations

The Synthesis of Vitamin D Metabolites by Human Melanoma Cells*

1983 • 43 citations

Biochemical properties of the 1 α, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 cytoplasmic receptors from human and chick parathyroid glands

1980 • 40 citations

Increase in melanin formation and promotion of cytotoxicity in cultured melanoma cells caused by phosphorylated isomers of L-dopa.

1986 • 39 citations

alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone binding and biological activity in a human melanoma cell line.

1981 • 38 citations

Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors in Melanocytic Lesions

1985 • 30 citations

Extracellular matrix modulates the function of human melanocytes but not melanoma cells

1988 • 29 citations

Culture of normal adult human melanocytes*

2006 • 28 citations

Vitamin D nutrition increases skin tyrosinase response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation

1982 • 25 citations

Human Melanoma Cells: Functional Modulation by Calciotropic Hormones

1988 • 25 citations

Steroid hormone receptors in human melanoma

1981 • 21 citations

Sex steroid hormone receptor analysis in malignant melanoma

1982 • 19 citations

THE ASSAY FOR THYROID STIMULATING IMMUNOGLOBULINS USING CULTURED HUMAN THYROID CELLS

1985 • 18 citations

Stimulation of melanogenesis by cholecalciferol in cultured human melanocytes : A possible mechanism underlying pigmentation after ultraviolet irradiation.

1986 • 14 citations

Defined culture systems for pharmacological and toxicological studies

1986 • 11 citations

Interaction of ACTH, corticosterone and cyclic nucleotides in harding-passey melanoma malanogenesis

1978 • 10 citations

Humoral hypercalcaemia of malignancy: Report of two further patients with biochemical studies on tumour extracts

1986 • 10 citations