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2010

Genome-Wide Association Studies of Pigmentation and Skin Cancer: A Review and Meta-Analysis
MR Gerstenblith, J Shi, MT Landi

Shades of meaning: the pigment-type switching system as a tool for discovery
Will P. Walker, Teresa M. Gunn

Sox proteins in melanocyte development and melanoma.
Melissa L. Harris, Laura L. Baxter, Stacie K. Loftus, William J. Pavan

Genetic and Environmental Melanoma Models in Fish
E. Elizabeth Patton, David L. Mitchell, Rodney S. Nairn

Growth and progression of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers regulated by ubiquitination
Koh Nakayama

Roles of Endothelin Signaling in Melanocyte Development and Melanoma
Amy Saldana-Caboverde, Lidia Kos

Stepping up melanocytes to the challenge of UV exposure
Zalfa A. Abdel-Malek, Ana Luisa Kadekaro, Viki B. Swope

Fifteen-year quest for microphthalmia-associated transcription factor target genes
Yann Cheli, Mickael Ohanna, Robert Ballotti, Corine Bertolotto

2009

Dormancy of metastatic melanoma
Liliana Ossowski, Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso

Recent advances and hurdles in melanoma immunotherapy
Camilla Jandus, Daniel Speiser, Pedro Romero

Hear the Wnt Ror: how melanoma cells adjust to changes in Wnt

Michael P. O'Connell, Ashani T. Weeraratna

Involvement of ABC transporters in melanogenesis and the development of multidrug resistance of melanoma

Kevin G. Chen, Julio C. Valencia, Jean-Pierre Gillet, Vincent J. Hearing, Michael M. Gottesman

New insights into the active site structure and catalytic mechanism of tyrosinase and its related proteins

Concepcion Olivares, Francisco Solano

Current Challenges in Understanding Melanogenesis: Bridging Chemistry, Biological Control, Morphology and Function
John D. Simon, Dana Peles, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Shosuke Ito

Carney complex and lentiginosis
Anelia Horvath, Constantine A. Stratakis

Genetics of Human Iris Colour and Patterns
Richard A. Sturm, Mats Larsson

Use of liposomes as drug delivery vehicles for treatment of melanoma
Melissa A. Tran, Rebecca J. Watts, Gavin P. Robertson

The PTEN–AKT3 signaling cascade as a therapeutic target in melanoma
SubbaRao V. Madhunapantula, Gavin P. Robertson

Griscelli syndrome: a model system to study vesicular trafficking
Mireille Van Gele, Peter Dynoodt, Jo Lambert

Hypoxia, melanocytes and melanoma – survival and tumor development in the permissive microenvironment of the skin
Barbara Bedogni, Marianne Broome Powell

The good and the bad of chemokines/chemokine receptors in melanoma
Ann Richmond, Jinming Yang, Yingjun Su

Epigenetic marks in melanoma
Hunter W. Richards, Estela E. Medrano

Dendritic cells in the skin – potential use for melanoma treatment
Sanaa El Marsafy, Martine Bagot, Armand Bensussan, Alain Mauviel

Update on skin repigmentation therapies in vitiligo
Rafael Falabella, Maria I. Barona

2008

The making of a melanocyte: the specification of melanoblasts from the neural crest
Aaron J. Thomas, Carol A. Erickson

POU domain transcription factors: BRN2 as a regulator of melanocytic growth and tumourigenesis
Anthony L. Cook, Richard A. Sturm

Pigmentation PAX-ways: the role of Pax3 in melanogenesis, melanocyte stem cell maintenance, and disease
Jennifer D. Kubic, Kacey P. Young, Rebecca S. Plummer, Anton E. Ludvik, Deborah Lang

The role of p53 in pigmentation, tanning and melanoma
Neil F. Box, Tamara Terzian

G-protein-coupled receptors and melanoma
Hwa Jin Lee, Brian Wall, Suzie Chen

Role of nodal signaling and the microenvironment underlying melanoma plasticity
Lynne-Marie Postovit, Naira V. Margaryan, Elisabeth A. Seftor, Mary J. C. Hendrix

Adaptation to ER stress as a driver of malignancy and resistance to therapy in human melanoma
Peter Hersey, Xu Dong Zhang

The reactive oxygen-driven tumor: relevance to melanoma
Levi Fried, Jack L. Arbiser

Transforming growth factor-ß in cutaneous melanoma
Delphine Javelaud, Vasileia-Ismini Alexaki, Alain Mauviel

An update on the honesty of melanin-based color signals in birds
Kevin J. McGraw

How to make a melanoma: what do we know of the primary clonal events?
Dorothy C. Bennett

Cancer stem cells and human malignant melanoma
Tobias Schatton and Markus H Frank

2007

The many faces of Notch signaling in skin-derived cells
Chelsea C. Pinnix and Meenhard Herlyn

DNA microarray analyses of melanoma gene expression: a decade in the mines
Keith S. Hoek

Cutaneous melanoma in genetically modified animals
Lionel Larue and Friedrich Beermann

ATF2 on the double – activating transcription factor and DNA damage response protein
Anindita Bhoumik, Pablo Lopez-Bergami and Ze’ev Ronai


Vitiligo puzzle: the pieces fall in place
Wiete Westerhof, Marco d’Ischia

Myosins in melanocytes: to move or not to move?
Evelyne Coudrier

Melanoma invasion – current knowledge and future directions
Cedric Gaggioli and Erik Sahai

Generating quiescent stem cells
Shin-Ichi Nishikawa and Masatake Osawa

The genetics of generalized vitiligo and associated autoimmune diseases
Richard A. Spritz

Molecular markers of circulating melanoma cells
Sandra Medic, Robert L. Pearce, Peter J. Heenan and Mel Ziman


Epigenetic events in malignant melanoma
Tanja Rothhammer and Anja-Katrin Bosserhoff

Regulation of human skin pigmentation and responses to ultraviolet radiation
Yoshinori Miyamura, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Barbara Z. Zmudzka, Shosuke Ito, Vincent J. Hearing et al

On the blue coloration of vertebrates
Joseph T. Bagnara, Philip J. Fernandez and Royozo Fujii

2006
Hypopigmenting agents: an updated review on biological, chemical and clinical aspects
Francisco Solano, Stefania Briganti, Mauro Picardo, Ghanem Ghanem

The physical and chemical properties of eumelanin
Paul Meredith, Tadeusz Sarna

The other pigment cell: specification and development of the pigmented epithelium of the vertebrate eye
Kapil Bharti, Minh-Thanh T. Nguyen, Susan Skuntz, Stefano Bertuzzi, Heinz Arnheiter

Bioimmunotherapy for melanoma using fully human antibodies targeting MCAM/MUC18 and IL-8
Vladislava O. Melnikova, Menashe Bar-Eli

A review and a new hypothesis for non-immunological pathogenetic mechanisms in vitiligo
Maria Lucia Dell'Anna, Mauro Picardo

Pocket protein function in melanocyte homeostasis and neoplasia
Ian D. Tonks, Nicholas K. Hayward, Graham F. Kay

Induction of melanocytes from embryonic stem cells and their therapeutic potential
Tsutomu Motohashi, Hitomi Aoki, Naoko Yoshimura, Takahiro Kunisada

The molecular regulation of organelle transport in mammalian retinal pigment epithelial cells
Clare E. Futter

NF-?B activation in melanoma
Yukiko Ueda, Ann Richmond

Tyrosinase maturation through the mammalian secretory pathway: bringing color to life
Ning Wang, Daniel N. Hebert

Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome: a disease of protein trafficking and organelle function
Maria L. Wei

2005
Melanoma inhibitory activity (MIA): an important molecule in melanoma development and progression
Anja-Katrin Bosserhoff

Melanocortin-1 receptor structure and functional regulation
José C. García-Borrón, Berta L. Sánchez-Laorden, Celia Jiménez-Cervantes

The Silver locus product Pmel17/gp100/Silv/ME20: controversial in name and in function
Alexander C. Theos, Steven T. Truschel, Graça Raposo, Michael S. Marks

Upstream stimulating factors: highly versatile stress-responsive transcription factors
Sébastien Corre, Marie-Dominique Galibert

Melanocyte-specific, cytotoxic T cell responses in vitiligo: the effective variant of melanoma immunity?
Silvia Garbelli, Stefania Mantovani, Belinda Palermo and Claudia Giachino

The ocular albinism type 1 (OA1) protein and the evidence for an intracellular signal transduction system involved in melanosome biogenesis
M. Vittoria Schiaffino and Carlo Tacchetti

Role of keratinocyte-derived factors involved in regulating the proliferation and differentiation of mammalian epidermal melanocytes
Tomohisa Hirobe

Pigment cell-related manifestations in neurofibromatosis type 1: an overview
Sofie De Schepper, Joachim Boucneau, Jo Lambert, Ludwine Messiaen, Jean-Marie Naeyaert

Pigment pattern formation in the medaka embryo
M. Lynn Lamoreux, Robert N. Kelsh, Yuko Wakamatsu, Kenjiro Ozato

Secrets to a healthy Sox life: lessons for melanocytes
Michael Wegner

Adhesion, migration and communication in melanocytes and melanoma
Nikolas K. Haass, Keiran S. M. Smalley, Ling Li, Meenhard Herlyn

Histone deacetylase inhibitors and malignant melanoma
Glen M. Boyle, Adam C. Martyn, Peter G. Parsons



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