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A major obstacle to applying the techniques of molecular biology to the genetics and cell biology of pigmentation has been our inability to grow normal murine melanocytes in culture. We report here the establishment and characterization of continuously proliferating cultures of cutaneous pigment cells from seven strains of mice. Melanocytes were grown from the dermis of newborn mice in medium containing 12-0-tetradecanoyl-13-phorbol-acetate; a substance, such as melanotropin, that raises intracellular levels of cyclic AMP; and an extract made from human placenta.
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This work was supported by Grant R01 CA04679 from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and a fellowship to Dr. A. Tamura from Mr. and Mrs. Allen Locklin. The chromosome studies were carried out in the laboratory of Dr. Uta Francke, Department of Human Genetics, Yale University. JCM was supported by NIH contract number N01-CP-21037.
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Tamura, A., Halaban, R., Moellmann, G. et al. Normal murine melanocytes in culture. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 23, 519–522 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02628423
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