Shosuke Ito

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Best Publications

• A Chemist's View of Melanogenesis

  Shosuke Ito

  621
  Citations

• Quantitative Analysis of Eumelanin and Pheomelanin in Humans, Mice, and Other Animals: a Comparative Review

  Shosuke Ito;Kazumasa Wakamatsu

  603
  Citations

• Chemistry of mixed melanogenesis--pivotal roles of dopaquinone.

  Shosuke Ito;Kazumasa Wakamatsu

  562
  Citations

• Melanins and melanogenesis: from pigment cells to human health and technological applications.

  Marco d'Ischia;Kazumasa Wakamatsu;Fabio Cicoira;Eduardo Di Mauro

  511
  Citations

• Microanalysis of eumelanin and pheomelanin in hair and melanomas by chemical degradation and liquid chromatography

  Shosuke Ito;Keisuke Fujita

  503
  Citations

• Melanins and melanogenesis: methods, standards, protocols

  Marco D'Ischia;Kazumasa Wakamatsu;Alessandra Napolitano;Stefania Briganti

  500
  Citations

• Current challenges in understanding melanogenesis: bridging chemistry, biological control, morphology, and function.

  John D Simon;Dana Peles;Kazumasa Wakamatsu;Shosuke Ito

  473
  Citations

• Advanced chemical methods in melanin determination.

  Kazumasa Wakamatsu;Shosuke Ito

  453
  Citations

• Inactivation of Drosophila DJ-1 leads to impairments of oxidative stress response and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt signaling

  Yufeng Yang;Stephan Gehrke;Md. Emdadul Haque;Yuzuru Imai

  439
  Citations

• UV-induced DNA damage and melanin content in human skin differing in racial/ethnic origin

  Taketsugu Tadokoro;Nobuhiko Kobayashi;Barbara Z. Zmudzka;Shosuke Ito

  416
  Citations

• Pheomelanin as well as eumelanin is present in human epidermis

  Anthony J Thody;Elisabeth M Higgins;Kazumasa Wakamatsu;Shosuke Ito

  399
  Citations

• Topical drug rescue strategy and skin protection based on the role of Mc1r in UV-induced tanning

  John A. D'Orazio;Tetsuji Nobuhisa;Tetsuji Nobuhisa;Rutao Cui;Rutao Cui;Michelle Arya;Michelle Arya

  373
  Citations

• Reexamination of the structure of eumelanin

  Shosuke Ito

  352
  Citations

• Usefulness of alkaline hydrogen peroxide oxidation to analyze eumelanin and pheomelanin in various tissue samples: application to chemical analysis of human hair melanins

  Shosuke Ito;Yukiko Nakanishi;Robert K. Valenzuela;Murray H. Brilliant

  294
  Citations

• Regulation of human skin pigmentation and responses to ultraviolet radiation.

  Yoshinori Miyamura;Sergio G. Coelho;Rainer Wolber;Sharon A. Miller

  290
  Citations

• Spectrophotometric Characterization of Eumelanin and Pheomelanin in Hair

  Hiroyuki Ozeki;Shosuke Ito;Kazumasa Wakamatsu;Anthony J. Thody

  289
  Citations

• Identification of glypican-3 as a novel tumor marker for melanoma.

  Tetsuya Nakatsura;Toshiro Kageshita;Shosuke Ito;Kazumasa Wakamatsu

  270
  Citations

• Chemical Characterization of Hair Melanins in Various Coat-Color Mutants of Mice

  Hiroyuki Ozeki;Shosuke Ito;Kazumasa Wakamatsu;Tomohisa Hirobe

  269
  Citations

• Human melanocortin 1 receptor variants, receptor function and melanocyte response to UV radiation.

  M. Cathy Scott;Kazumasa Wakamatsu;Shosuke Ito;Ana Luisa Kadekaro

  255
  Citations

• A facile one-step synthesis of cysteinyldopas using mushroom tyrosinase.

  S. Ito;G. Prota

  255
  Citations