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Expression of genes coding melatonin and serotonin receptors in rodent skin
Andrzej Slominski1, Alexander Pisarchik, Jacobo Wortsman
1Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 930 Madison Ave., Room 519, Memphis, TN 38163, USA. aslominski@utmem.edu
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
|October 19, 2004
Abstract:
Targeted search for expression of melatonin and serotonin receptors genes in the skin of C57BL/6J mice showed expression of MT1B (but not MT1A). Mouse skin and hamster melanomas also expressed 5HT2B and 5HT7. We identified two novel isoforms of MT1A and 5HT7.

