What are melanocytes really doing all day long...?

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Published in Exp Dermatol on July 30, 2009

Authors

P M Plonka1, T Passeron, M Brenner, D J Tobin, S Shibahara, A Thomas, A Slominski, A L Kadekaro, D Hershkovitz, E Peters, J J Nordlund, Z Abdel-Malek, K Takeda, R Paus, J P Ortonne, V J Hearing, K U Schallreuter

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, PL-30-387 Kraków, Poland. przemyslaw.plonka@uj.edu.pl

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