Accelerated disappearance of melanocytes in bcl-2-deficient mice.

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Accelerated disappearance of melanocytes in bcl-2-deficient mice.

Cancer research - 1 Aug 1996

Yamamura K, Kamada S, Ito S, Nakagawa K, Ichihashi M, Tsujimoto Y

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Follicular melanocytes in bcl-2(-/-) mice have been reported to turn gray during the second hair cycle. Light microscopic analysis revealed that about half of bcl-2(-/-) mouse hair shafts had no detectable melanin granules after the second hair follicle cycle, but the remaining hair appeared to b...

Topics

Animals
Genotype
Hair Color
Hair Follicle
Hair Removal
Hypopigmentation
Melanins
Melanocytes
Mice
Proto-Oncogene Proteins
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2

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