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    Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research: Volume 22, Issue 1

    1-143
    February 2009
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Editorial

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Browsing issues

Colin Goding, 
  • Page: 1
  • First Published: 16 January 2009

News and Views

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Mouse pigmentation mutants help identify a uveal melanoma oncogene

Nicholas K. Hayward, 
  • Pages: 2-3
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Cracking the system: melanoma complexity demands new therapeutic approaches

Adina Vultur,  Meenhard Herlyn, 
  • Pages: 4-5
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Stemming the flood

Keith S. Hoek,  Ossia M. Eichhoff,  Daniel Widmer,  Reinhard Dummer, 
  • Pages: 6-7
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Stepping on the GAS: a brake pedal for melanoma metastasis?

Marika Linja,  Levi A. Garraway, 
  • Pages: 8-9
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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The expanding role and presence of neuromelanins in the human brain – why gray matter is gray

Vincent J. Hearing, 
  • Pages: 10-11
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Melanins seem to be everywhere in the body, but for what?

Shosuke Ito, 
  • Pages: 12-13
  • First Published: 16 January 2009

Review Articles

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Epigenetic marks in melanoma

Hunter W. Richards,  Estela E. Medrano, 
  • Pages: 14-29
  • First Published: 16 January 2009

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Dendritic cells in the skin – potential use for melanoma treatment

Sanaa El Marsafy,  Martine Bagot,  Armand Bensussan,  Alain Mauviel, 
  • Pages: 30-41
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Update on skin repigmentation therapies in vitiligo

Rafael Falabella,  Maria I. Barona, 
  • Pages: 42-65
  • First Published: 16 January 2009

Original Articles

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Positive crosstalk between ERK and p38 in melanoma stimulates migration and in vivo proliferation

Yeriel Estrada,  Jianli Dong,  Liliana Ossowski, 
  • Pages: 66-76
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Stem cell factor induces ERM proteins phosphorylation through PI3K activation to mediate melanocyte proliferation and migration

Songhee Jeon,  Nan-Hyung Kim,  Ji-Young Kim,  Ai-Young Lee, 
  • Pages: 77-85
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Inhibition of melanoma brain metastasis by targeting melanotransferrin at the cell surface

Yannève Rolland,  Michel Demeule,  Laurence Fenart,  Richard Béliveau, 
  • Pages: 86-98
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Gpnmb is a melanoblast-expressed, MITF-dependent gene

Stacie K. Loftus,  Anthony Antonellis,  Ivana Matera,  Gabriel Renaud,  Laura L. Baxter,  Duncan Reid,  Tyra G. Wolfsberg,  Yidong Chen,  ChenWei Wang,  NISC Comparative Sequencing Program ,  Megana K. Prasad,  Seneca L. Bessling,  Andrew S. McCallion,  Eric D. Green,  Dorothy C. Bennett,  William J. Pavan, 
  • Pages: 99-110
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Specific expression of Gsta4 in mouse cochlear melanocytes: a novel role for hearing and melanocyte differentiation

Shigeyuki Uehara,  Yoshiko Izumi,  Yuko Kubo,  Chi Chiu Wang,  Katsuhiko Mineta,  Kazuho Ikeo,  Takashi Gojobori,  Masayoshi Tachibana,  Toshihiko Kikuchi,  Toshimitsu Kobayashi,  Shigeki Shibahara,  Choji Taya,  Hiromichi Yonekawa,  Toshihiko Shiroishi,  Hiroaki Yamamoto, 
  • Pages: 111-119
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Retention of the cyanobacterial neurotoxin β-N-methylamino-l-alanine in melanin and neuromelanin-containing cells – a possible link between Parkinson-dementia complex and pigmentary retinopathy

Oskar Karlsson,  Cecilia Berg,  Eva B. Brittebo,  Nils Gunnar Lindquist, 
  • Pages: 120-130
  • First Published: 16 January 2009

Letters to the Editor

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Wild type and melanoma-associated mutant p16INK4a proteins do not oligomerize in vivo

Heather McKenzie,  Therese M. Becker,  Lyndee L. Scurr,  Richard F. Kefford,  Helen Rizos, 
  • Pages: 131-133
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Structural characterization of melanin from Black-bone silky fowl (Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson)

Yong-gang Tu,  Ming-yong Xie,  Ya-zhen Sun,  Ying-gang Tian, 
  • Pages: 134-136
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Scientific and social controversies regarding UV and pigmentation: the beneficial effects of UV irradiance outweigh the risks

William B. Grant, 
  • Pages: 137-138
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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Scientific and social controversies regarding UV and pigmentation: the beneficial effects of UV irradiance outweighs the risks – a reply

Thanh Nga Tran,  Joshua Schulman,  David E. Fisher, 
  • Page: 139
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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A response to ‘Mammalian paramutation: a tail’s tale?’– a commentary by H. Arnheiter on our paramutation paper

Minoo Rassoulzadegan, 
  • Pages: 140-141
  • First Published: 16 January 2009
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‘A response to ‘Mammalian paramutation: a tail’s tale?’– a commentary by H. Arnheiter on our paramutation paper’– a reply

Heinz Arnheiter, 
  • Pages: 142-143
  • First Published: 16 January 2009