α-melanocyte stimulating hormone and its analogue nle4dphe7α-MSH affect morphology, tyrosinase activity and melanogenesis in cultured human melanocytes

The Cloning of a Family of Genes That Encode the Melanocortin Receptors

1992 • 1,616 citations

Pigmentation phenotypes of variant extension locus alleles result from point mutations that alter MSH receptor function

1993 • 873 citations

Molecular cloning and expression of the human melanocyte stimulating hormone receptor cDNA

1992 • 595 citations

Mammalian tyrosinase—The critical regulatory control point in melanocyte pigmentation

1987 • 439 citations

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

1961 • 328 citations

Pheomelanin as well as Eumelanin Is Present in Human Epidermis

1991 • 303 citations

Regulation of tyrosinase in human melanocytes grown in culture.

1983 • 288 citations

Role of Tyrosinase as the Determinant of Pigmentation in Cultured Human Melanocytes

1993 • 256 citations

Regulation of Human Melanocyte Growth, Dendricity, and Melanization by Keratinocyte Derived Factors

1989 • 237 citations

Induction of Skin Tanning by Subcutaneous Administration of a Potent Synthetic Melanotropin

1991 • 205 citations

Control of Phenotypic Expresssion of Cultured Melanoma Cells by Melanocyte Stimulating Hormones

1973 • 160 citations

Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone and Adrenocorticotrophic Hormone

1964 • 159 citations

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

1988 • 146 citations

Human Melanogenesis is Stimulated by Diacylglycerol

1989 • 138 citations

Human Melanocyte Growth and Differentiation: A Decade of New Data

1991 • 121 citations

Pigment content of cultured human melanocytes does not correlate with tyrosinase message level

1991 • 113 citations

Melanocyte-stimulating hormone, tyrosinase activity and the regulation of eumelanogenesis and phaeomelanogenesis in the hair follicular melanocytes of the mouse

1986 • 99 citations

Regulatory factors that determine growth and phenotype of normal human melanocytes*1

1988 • 98 citations

Growth Regulation of Human Melanocytes: Mitogenic Factors in Extracts of Melanoma, Astrocytoma, and Fibroblast Cell Lines

1985 • 95 citations

The expression of functional MSH receptors on cultured human melanocytes

1992 • 95 citations

Cholera Toxin Mimics Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone in Inducing Differentiation in Melanoma Cells

1974 • 93 citations

Effect of Seawater Soluble Fraction of Kerosene on Chemotaxis in a Marine Snail, Nassarius obsoletus

1973 • 89 citations

Effect of phorbol ester tumor promoters on the expression of melanogenesis in B-16 melanoma cells.

1979 • 78 citations

Rapid and Reversible Inhibition of Tyrosinase Activity by Glucosidase Inhibitors in Human Melanoma Cells

1992 • 70 citations

Growth and differentiation of normal human melanocytes in a TPA-free, cholera toxin-free, low-serum medium and influence of keratinocytes

1993 • 69 citations

Colour-coded switches

1993 • 65 citations

α-MSH causes a small rise in cAMP but has no effect on basal or ultraviolet-stimulated melanogenesis in human melanocytes

1990 • 57 citations

Effects of melanocyte-stimulating hormone on tyrosinase expression and melanin synthesis in hair follicular melanocytes of the mouse

1993 • 53 citations

Regulation of cell shape in the Cloudman melanoma cell line.

1987 • 50 citations

Cytoskeletal events underlying dendrite formation by cultured pigment cells

1992 • 48 citations

α-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone stimulates protein kinase C activity in murine B16 melanoma

1992 • 46 citations

Stimulation of dendritogenesis in the epidermal melanocytes of newborn mice by melanocyte-stimulating hormone

1978 • 43 citations

MSH receptor expression and the relationship to melanogenesis and metastatic activity in B16 melanoma

1992 • 39 citations

Tyrosinase Synthesis in Different Skin Types and the Effects of α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone and Cyclic AMP

1990 • 34 citations

[NLE⁴, D-PHE⁷]-$aL-MSH: A Superpotent Melanotropin That “Irreversibly” Activates Melanoma Tyrosinase

1985 • 33 citations

Shapes of cells spreading on fibronectin: measurement of the stellation of BHK21 cells induced by raising cyclic AMP, and of its reversal by serum and lysophosphatidic acid

1993 • 27 citations

Hormonal stimulation of tyrosinase activity in human foreskin organ cultures

1990 • 15 citations

The Effect of α‐MSH on the Attachment of Human Melanocytes to Laminin and Fibronectin: Evidence for Specific α‐MSH Receptors on These Cells^a

1993 • 14 citations

Reply

1990 • 1 citations