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Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research is a dermatology journal publishing up-to-date manuscripts on all aspects of pigment cells and melanoma. From cell and molecular biology, development, genetics, to diseases of pigment cells, everything is comprehensively covered.
We look for papers that provide insights into the causes and progression of melanoma, aiming to advance the field and find ways to prevent this type of skin cancer, with a focus on the process of metastasis and invasion, proliferation, senescence, apoptosis or gene regulation.
Reasons to publish with Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research:
Official journal of the International Federation of Pigment Cell Societies (IFPCS) and the Society for Melanoma Research (SMR)
User friendly submission process and quick turnaround times
Internationally recognized scientists serving on the Editorial Board and as expert reviewers
Articles
Myron Gordon Award Lecture 2023: Painting the neural crest: How studying pigment cells illuminates neural crest cell biology
- 27 November 2023
Graphical Abstract
Photo: IPCC2023.
Risk factors for sentinel lymph node metastasis in Korean acral and non‐acral melanoma patients
- 27 November 2023
Graphical Abstract
Along with well known risk factors for sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastasis in cutaneous melanoma, heavy pigmentation might independently predict SLN positivity and be associated with poor recurrence-free survival.
MitoCur‐1 induces ferroptosis to reverse vemurafenib resistance in melanoma through inhibition of USP14
- 20 November 2023
Graphical Abstract
Graphic abstract illustrates that MitoCur-1 induces melanoma cell death and sensitization of vem-resistant melanoma cell through two ways: (1) inhibition of mitochondrial TrxR2, generation of ROS, and induction of the ROS-dependent glycolytic metabolisms (Zheng et al., Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 70, 2022, 2898–2910); (2) meanwhile, by inhibiting the expression of USP14, MitoCur-1 repressed activity of GPX4. The depletion of anti-oxidative enzyme aggravates the accumulation of lipid ROS and ferrous iron, and then triggers ferroptosis leading to melanoma cell death and overcoming vem resistance in melanoma.
CD52 mRNA expression predicts prognosis and response to immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma
- 17 November 2023
Graphical Abstract
Expression of the immune-modulating gene CD52 correlates with differentiation, immune checkpoint expression, lymphocyte infiltration, and macrophage polarization and is associated with response to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in melanoma.
Single-cell profiling of MC1R-inhibited melanocytes
- 16 November 2023
Research Highlights
Research Highlights
Single-cell RNAseq of MC1R-inhibited melanocytes elucidates a set of differentially expressed genes with no previous ties to pigmentation or melanocyte biology. This list includes Tbx3 which we show binds to T- and E-boxes of candidate target genes, including those with known roles in pigmentation.
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
Revised classification/nomenclature of vitiligo and related issues: the Vitiligo Global Issues Consensus Conference
- E1-E13
- 14 March 2012
Melanins and melanogenesis: from pigment cells to human health and technological applications
- 520-544
- 14 July 2015
Melanins and melanogenesis: methods, standards, protocols
- 616-633
- 25 May 2013
Genetically engineered multicistronic allele of Pmel yielding highly specific CreERT2-mediated recombination in the melanocyte lineage
- Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research
- 71-77
- 22 November 2022
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Thomas B. Fitzpatrick Award
On behalf of the Thomas B. Fitzpatrick Award Committee, we are pleased to announce that the Thomas B Fitzpatrick Medal for the best paper published in Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research is awarded to:
Ji Young Kim, Jihee Kim, Yuri Ahn, Eun Jung Lee, Shinwon Hwang, Abdurrahman Almurayshid, Keedon Park, Hwa-Jee Chung, Heung Jae Kim, Si-Hyung Lee, Myung-Shik Lee, Sang Ho Oh