How are proliferation and differentiation of melanocytes regulated?

Life cycle of human melanocytes is regulated by endothelin-1 and stem cell factor in synergy with cyclic AMP and basic fibroblast growth factor

(2010) Tomohisa Hirobe et al.   JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The mouse pink-eyed dilution allele of the P-gene greatly inhibits eumelanin but not pheomelanin synthesis

(2010) Tomohisa Hirobe et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Human hair melanins: what we have learned and have not learned from mouse coat color pigmentation

(2010) Shosuke Ito et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

 -Catenin activity in the dermal papilla of the hair follicle regulates pigment-type switching

(2010) D. Enshell-Seijffers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estrogen Increases Hair Pigmentation in Female Recessive Yellow Mice

(2010) Tomohisa Hirobe et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Physiological factors that regulate skin pigmentation

(2009) Yuji Yamaguchi et al.   BIOFACTORS

Ferrous Ferric Chloride Stimulates the Skin Cell Function and Hair Growth in Mice

(2009) Tomohisa Hirobe   BIOLOGICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN

Genotoxic Stress Abrogates Renewal of Melanocyte Stem Cells by Triggering Their Differentiation

(2009) Ken Inomata et al.   CELL

Two distinct types of mouse melanocyte: differential signaling requirement for the maintenance of non-cutaneous and dermal versus epidermal melanocytes

(2009) H. Aoki et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Immunohistochemical survey of the distribution of epidermal melanoblasts and melanocytes during the development of UVB-induced pigmented spots

(2009) Rikako Furuya et al.   JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Ferrous Ferric Chloride Induces the Differentiation of Cultured Mouse Epidermal Melanocytes Additionally with Herbal Medicines

(2009) Tomohisa Hirobe   JOURNAL OF HEALTH SCIENCE

Ferrous Ferric Chloride Stimulates the Proliferation of Human Skin Keratinocytes, Melanocytes, and Fibroblasts in Culture

(2009) Tomohisa Hirobe   JOURNAL OF HEALTH SCIENCE

Mitochondria are More Numerous and Smaller in Pink-Eyed Dilution Melanoblasts and Melanocytes Than in Wild-Type Melanocytes in the Neonatal Mouse Epidermis

(2009) Tomohisa Hirobe et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Localization to Mature Melanosomes by Virtue of Cytoplasmic Dileucine Motifs Is Required for Human OCA2 Function

(2008) Anand Sitaram et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL