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List of works by Ana Maria de Lauro Castrucci

A sensitive in vitro toad skin bioassay for melanotropic peptides

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

A study on melanophore receptors of Papiliochromis ramirezi (teleostei, cichlidae)

scientific article published on 01 January 1984

A teleost skin bioassay for melanotropic peptides

scientific article published on 01 June 1987

Adrenoceptors in normal and malignant human melanocytes

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone structure-activity studies: comparative analysis of melanotropic and CNS bioactivities.

scientific article

Alpha-melanotropin: the minimal active sequence in the lizard skin bioassay

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Biological effects of insulin on murine melanoma cells and fish erythrophoroma cells: a comparative study.

scientific article

Cellular signalling in vertebrate pigment cells

scientific article published on December 1, 1996

Cellular signalling of PCH-induced pigment aggregation in the crustacean Macrobrachium potiuna erythrophores

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

Cold-sensing TRPM8 channel participates in circadian control of the brown adipose tissue

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Comparative aspects of the pineal/melatonin system of poikilothermic vertebrates.

scientific article

Comparative biological activities of potent analogues of alpha-melanotropin. Effect of nonaromatic and para substituted aromatic amino acids at position 7

scientific article published on 01 June 1986

Cyclic lactam alpha-melanotropin analogues of Ac-Nle4-cyclo[Asp5, D-Phe7,Lys10] alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-(4-10)-NH2 with bulky aromatic amino acids at position 7 show high antagonist potency and selectivity at specific melanocortin recep ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1995

Cyclic lactam analogues of Ac-[Nle4]alpha-MSH4-11-NH2

scientific article published on 01 October 1988

Cyclic melanotropins. 5. Importance of the C-terminal tripeptide (Lys-Pro-Val)

scientific article published on 01 September 1984

Cyclic melanotropins. 9. 7-D-Phenylalanine analogues of the active-site sequence

scientific article published on 01 May 1985

Cyclic melanotropins. Part VII: Modified ring structures--synthesis and biological activity

scientific article published on 01 November 1984

Design of potent linear alpha-melanotropin 4-10 analogues modified in positions 5 and 10

scientific article (publication date: 1989)

Dexamethasone Modulates Nonvisual Opsins, Glucocorticoid Receptor, and Clock Genes in Danio rerio ZEM-2S Cells.

scientific article

Differential structural requirements for the MSH and MCH activities of melanin concentrating hormone

scientific article published on 01 March 1987

Discovery and structure-activity relationships of novel alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone inhibitors

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Discovery of an alpha-melanotropin antagonist effective in vivo

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Endothelin modulates the circadian expression of non-visual opsins

scientific article published on 9 May 2014

Environmental control of biological rhythms: effects on development, fertility and metabolism

scientific article published on September 2014

Enzymological studies of melanotropins ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1984

Estradiol differently affects melanin synthesis of malignant and normal melanocytes: a relationship with clock and clock-controlled genes.

scientific article

Expression of endothelin receptors in frog, chicken, mouse and human pigment cells.

scientific article published on 4 August 2006

First synthesis of a fully active spin-labeled peptide hormone

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

From blue light to clock genes in zebrafish ZEM-2S cells

scientific article

Heat shock antagonizes UVA-induced responses in murine melanocytes and melanoma cells: an unexpected interaction

scientific article

High melatonin solubility in aqueous medium

scientific article published on 01 May 1994

Identification of protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms in teleostean, amphibian and avian pigment cells.

scientific article published in December 2003

Interaction of melanotropic peptides with lipid membranes

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

Ionic Requirements for Melanin Concentrating Hormone (MCH) Actions on Teleost Poecilia reticulata Melanophores

scientific article published on 01 May 1989

Ionic requirements for catecholamine aggregating actions on the teleost Poecilia reticulata melanophores.

scientific article published in September 1990

Lack of Melanopsin Is Associated with Extreme Weight Loss in Mice upon Dietary Challenge

scientific article

Loss of photic entrainment and altered free-running circadian rhythms in math5-/- mice

scientific journal article

Melanin concentrating hormone (MCH) control of chromatophores

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Melanin concentrating hormone (MCH) mechanisms of action

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Melanin concentrating hormone (MCH): structure-function aspects of its melanocyte stimulating hormone-like (MSH-like) activity

scientific article published on 01 July 1989

Melanin concentrating hormone (MCH): synthesis and bioactivity studies of MCH fragment analogues

scientific article published on 01 March 1989

Melanin concentrating hormone analogs: contraction of the cyclic structure. 1. Agonist activity

scientific article published on 01 May 1988

Melanin concentrating hormone analogues: contraction of the cyclic structure. II. Antagonist activity

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Melanin concentrating hormone exhibits both MSH and MCH activities on individual melanophores

scientific article published on 01 May 1987

Melanin concentrating hormone. III. Melanin concentrating hormone (MCH): the message sequence

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Melanocyte stimulating hormone and melanin concentration hormone may be structurally and evolutionarily related

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Melanopsin and rhodopsin mediate UVA-induced immediate pigment darkening: Unravelling the photosensitive system of the skin.

scientific article published on 26 January 2018

Melanopsin is required for non-image-forming photic responses in blind mice

scientific article (publication date: 25 July 2003)

Melanopsin, a Canonical Light Receptor, Mediates Thermal Activation of Clock Genes

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Melanopsins: Localization and Phototransduction in Xenopus laevis Melanophores

scientific article

Melanotropin bioassays: in vitro and in vivo comparisons

scientific article published on 01 July 1984

Melanotropin structure-activity studies on melanocytes of the teleost fish, Synbranchus marmoratus

scientific article published on 01 May 1989

Melatonin desensitizing effects on the in vitro responses to MCH, alpha-MSH, isoproterenol and melatonin in pigment cells of a fish (S. marmoratus), a toad (B. ictericus), a frog (R. pipiens), and a lizard (A. carolinensis), exposed to varying photo

scientific article published on 01 December 1994

Non-Metastatic Cutaneous Melanoma Induces Chronodisruption in Central and Peripheral Circadian Clocks.

scientific article published on 3 April 2018

Nonvisual Opsins and the Regulation of Peripheral Clocks by Light and Hormones

scientific article

Nonvisual light responses in the Rpe65 knockout mouse: rod loss restores sensitivity to the melanopsin system

scientific article

Physiological color change in the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

Pigment cell signalling for physiological color change.

scientific article published on December 1997

Possible role of non-classical chromatophorotropins on the regulation of the crustacean erythrophore

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Potent and prolonged acting cyclic lactam analogues of alpha-melanotropin: design based on molecular dynamics

scientific article published on 01 December 1989

Protein-kinase C mediates MCH signal transduction in teleost, synbranchus marmoratus, melanocytes

scientific article published on 01 March 1991

Psoralen activity and binding sites in melanotic and amelanotic human melanoma cells

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Psoralens stimulate mouse melanocyte and melanoma tyrosinase activity in the absence of ultraviolet light.

scientific article published in October 1990

Quantitative In Vitro Assay for Crustacean Chromatophorotropins and Other Pigment Cell Agonists

scientific article published on 01 January 1990

Regulation of melanopsins and Per1 by α -MSH and melatonin in photosensitive Xenopus laevis melanophores

scientific article

Responses of melanocytes and melanomacrophages of Eupemphix nattereri (Anura: Leiuperidae) to Nle⁴, D-Phe⁷-α-melanocyte stimulating hormone and lipopolysaccharides

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Rhabdomeric phototransduction initiated by the vertebrate photopigment melanopsin.

scientific article

Rhythmic expression, light entrainment and alpha-MSH modulation of rhodopsin mRNA in a teleost pigment cell line.

scientific article published on 29 June 2006

Serotonin and N-acetylserotonin effects on pigment cells of the toad Bufo ictericus: pharmacological characterization of melatonin receptors

scientific article published on 01 August 1996

Structure-activity correlations of melanotropin peptides in model lipids by tryptophan fluorescence studies

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

Structure-activity relationships of [Nle4, D-Phe7]alpha-MSH. Discovery of a tripeptidyl agonist exhibiting sustained bioactivity

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

Synthesis and bioactivity studies of two isosteric acyclic analogues of melanin concentrating hormone

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

Synthesis and biological actions of highly potent and prolonged acting biotin-labeled melanotropins.

scientific article

Synthesis and biological actions of melanin concentrating hormone

scientific article published on 01 July 1984

Synthesis and biological evaluation of the superagonist [N alpha-chlorotriazinylaminofluorescein-Ser1,Nle4,D-Phe7]-al pha-MSH

scientific article published on 01 March 1985

Synthesis of a cyclic melanotropic peptide exhibiting both melanin-concentrating and -dispersing activities

scientific article

Synthesis of tritium labeled Ac-[Nle4, D-Phe7]-alpha-MSH4-11-NH2: a superpotent melanotropin with prolonged biological activity.

scientific article

TRP channels: a missing bond in the entrainment mechanism of peripheral clocks throughout evolution

scientific article

TRPV1 participates in the activation of clock molecular machinery in the brown adipose tissue in response to light-dark cycle

scientific article

The effect of white light on normal and malignant murine melanocytes: A link between opsins, clock genes, and melanogenesis

scientific article published on 03 March 2016

The expression of melanopsin and clock genes in Xenopus laevis melanophores and their modulation by melatonin

scientific article published on 24 May 2012

Thermal stress in Danio rerio: a link between temperature, light, thermo-TRP channels, and clock genes

scientific article published on 24 February 2017

Topical application of a melanotropin analogue to vulgar vitiligo dermo-epidermal minigrafts

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

Toxicity of fatty acids on murine and human melanoma cell lines.

scientific article

Tris buffer effects on melanophore aggregating responses

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[Nle4, D-Phe7]-alpha-MSH: a superpotent melanotropin with prolonged action on vertebrate chromatophores

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

alpha-Melanotropin: the minimal active sequence in the frog skin bioassay

scientific article published on 01 November 1987

beta-Methylation of the Phe7 and Trp9 melanotropin side chain pharmacophores affects ligand-receptor interactions and prolonged biological activity

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

α-Msh (melanocyte stimulating hormone) and mch (melanin concentrating hormone) actions in Bufo ictericus ictericus melanophores

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

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