… melanocytic gene products—an observation associated with diagnostic dilemmas. Microphthalmia
transcription factor (Mitf) is a melanocytic … postnatal viability of melanocytes. It serves …

… The first mouse microphthalmia transcription factor (Mitf ) … zipper (bHLH-Zip) transcription
factors. Like Myc, Mitf regulates … biology of melanocytes and helped to explain how melanocyte-…

… Microphthalmia transcription factor may be a valuable addition to the marker panel used in
diagnosing melanoma… Microphthalmia transcription factor (MITF) is a transcriptional regulator …

… or spindled forms of melanoma. Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MiTF) is
the most recently described and the only nuclear melanocytic marker. This article reviews the …

… microphthalmia (mi) gene is a transcription factor essential for the development and survival
of melanocytes… antibody generated against human Mi transcription factor protein (Mitf) the …

… melanocyte differentiation markers mRNAs was preceded by a decrease in microphthalmia
transcription factor … microphthalmia-dependent downregulation of the melanogenic enzymes. …

… microphthalmia transcription factor MITF plays a pivotal role in the development and
differentiation of melanocytes. … as a marker capable of identifying subgroups of melanoma patients …

… work showed that microphthalmia transcription factor is a sensitive and specific melanocyte
marker for melanoma diagnosis ( 1 ) in the context of epithelioid melanoma and its limited …

… utility of microphthalmia transcription factor in malignant melanoma and … Microphthalmia
transcription factor in the … melanoma: comparison with four other melanoma markers. Am. J. …

… In this study we investigated the role of the melanocyte-specific transcription factor MITF in
expression of TRP-1 in human melanoma cells. In the presence of the pharmacological agent …