2008 Impact factor 4.634

Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

IFPCS and SMR

Edited by:
Ze'ev Ronai

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 42/157 Cell Biology; 2/43 Dermatology
Impact Factor: 4.634

Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research publishes manuscripts on all aspects of pigment cells including development, cell and molecular biology, genetics, diseases of pigment cells including melanoma.

Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research is the official journal of the International Federation of Pigment Cell Societies (IFPCS) and the Society for Melanoma Research (SMR).

Letter to the Editor
Read this letter to the editor from David Baltimore et al accepted for publication in Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, free online:
Overcoming Barriers to Programming a Therapeutic Cellular Immune Response to Fight Melanoma

TopNews and Announcements

The dangers of sunbed tanning
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TopHighlights

Click on the titles below to read the top articles in Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research:

Most accessed in 2009
The making of a melanocyte: the specification of melanoblasts from the neural crest
Aaron J. Thomas, Carol A. Erickson
UV and pigmentation: molecular mechanisms and social controversies
Thanh-Nga T. Tran, Joshua Schulman, David E. Fisher
Update on skin repigmentation therapies in vitiligo
Rafael Falabella, Maria I. Barona
Are tanning beds safe? Human studies of melanoma
Marianne Berwick
Epigenetic marks in melanoma
Hunter W. Richards, Estela E. Medrano
Cancer stem cells and human malignant melanoma
Tobias Schatton, Markus H. Frank
Novel MITF targets identified using a two-step DNA microarray strategy
Keith S. Hoek, Natalie C. Schlegel, Ossia M. Eichhoff et al.
Pigmentation PAX-ways: the role of Pax3 in melanogenesis, melanocyte stem cell maintenance, and disease
Jennifer D. Kubic, Kacey P. Young, Rebecca S. Plummer et al.
The role of p53 in pigmentation, tanning and melanoma
Neil F. Box, Tamara Terzian
G-protein-coupled receptors and melanoma
Hwa Jin Lee, Brian Wall, Suzie Chen
Adhesion, migration and communication in melanocytes and melanoma
Nikolas K. Haass, Keiran S. M. Smalley, Ling Li, Meenhard Herlyn
The good and the bad of chemokines/chemokine receptors in melanoma
Ann Richmond, Jinming Yang, Yingjun Su
Ultraviolet wavebands and melanoma initiation
Dorothy C. Bennett
Inflammation and melanoma metastasis
Vladislava O. Melnikova, Menashe Bar-Eli
POU domain transcription factors: BRN2 as a regulator of melanocytic growth and tumourigenesis
Anthony L. Cook, Richard A. Sturm
Hypopigmenting agents: an updated review on biological, chemical and clinical aspects
Francisco Solano, Stefania Briganti, Mauro Picardo, Ghanem Ghanem
Hypoxia, melanocytes and melanoma - survival and tumor development in the permissive microenvironment of the skin
Barbara Bedogni, Marianne Broome Powell
Regulation of human skin pigmentation and responses to ultraviolet radiation
Yoshinori Miyamura, Sergio G. Coelho, Rainer Wolber et al.
Frequent mutations in the MITF pathway in melanoma
Julia C. Cronin, John Wunderlich, Stacie K. Loftus et al.
The significance of Nrf2 pathway in (photo)-oxidative stress response in melanocytes and keratinocytes of the human epidermis
Laurent Marrot, Christophe Jones, Philippe Perez, Jean-Roch Meunier

Most cited articles published in 2008
(based on citations recorded in Web of Science as of 25 January 2010)
How to make a melanoma: what do we know of the primary clonal events?
Dorothy C. Bennett
Cancer stem cells and human malignant melanoma
Tobias Schatton, Markus H. Frank
Dose-dependent, complete response to imatinib of a metastatic mucosal melanoma with a K642E KIT mutation
Jose Lutzky, Juergen Bauer, Boris C. Bastian
Adaptation to ER stress as a driver of malignancy and resistance to therapy in human melanoma
Peter Hersey, Xu Dong Zhang
An update on the honesty of melanin-based color signals in birds
Kevin J. McGraw
Characterization of melanin in human iridal and choroidal melanocytes from eyes with various colored irides
Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Dan-Ning Hu, Steven A. McCormick, Shosuke Ito
UV and pigmentation: molecular mechanisms and social controversies
Thanh-Nga T. Tran, Joshua Schulman, David E. Fisher
Transforming growth factor-beta in cutaneous melanoma
Delphine Javelaud, Vasileia-Ismini Alexaki, Alain Mauviel
Regulation of eumelanin/pheomelanin synthesis and visible pigmentation in melanocytes by ligands of the melanocortin 1 receptor
Elodie Le Pape, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Shosuke Ito et al.
Oncogenic BRAF(V600E) inhibits BIM expression to promote melanoma cell survival
Robert A. Cartlidge, G. R. Thomas, Sebastien Cagnol et al.