Free Review Articles
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
