Free Review Articles

2008
The reactive oxygen-driven tumor: relevance to melanoma
Levi Fried, Jack L. Arbiser

Transforming growth factor-β 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, Sergio G. Coelho, Rainer Wolber, Sharon A. Miller, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Barbara Z. Zmudzka, Shosuke Ito, Christoph Smuda, Thierry Passeron, Wonseon Choi, Jan Batzer, Yuji Yamaguchi, Janusz Z. Beer and Vincent J. Hearing

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-κB 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