Topical application of a melanotropin analogue to vulgar vitiligo dermo-epidermal minigrafts
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Topical application of a melanotropin analogue to vulgar vitiligo dermo-epidermal minigrafts.
Human subjects with active vulgar vitiligo do not respond well to autologous dermo-epidermal minigrafting. Eighteen subjects were treated with the alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) synthetic analogue [Nle4, D-Phe7]-alpha-MSH. The hormone (50 microliters, 0.4 mM) was applied topically to 30-cm2 lesions in which 29-48 minigrafts had been made. The hormone did not improve the succes...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0100-879X
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x1998001200008