Article
Premature avian melanocyte death due to low antioxidant levels of protection: fowl model for vitiligo.
Pigment cell research - 1 Dec 1994
Bowers R R, Lujan J, Biboso A, Kridel S, Varkey C
Abstract excerpt
Feather melanocytes in the Barred Plymouth Rock (BPR) and White Leghorn (WL) chickens die prematurely in vivo when compared to the wild type Jungle Fowl (JF) chicken. Since these mutant melanocytes live in vitro, an environmental factor in the feather must precipitate their death. Results show th...
Topics
- Animals
- Catalase
- Cell Death
- Cells, Cultured
- Chickens
- Disease Models, Animal
- Feathers
- Glutathione
- Glutathione Peroxidase
- Hypopigmentation
- Levodopa
- Melanocytes
- Models, Biological
- Mutation
- Oxidative Stress
- Reactive Oxygen Species
- Species Specificity
- Superoxide Dismutase