TY - BOOK AU - Dalia Mohamed Abdelhalim AU - Amira Mohamed Eltawdy , AU - Gamal Abdelaty Hafez , AU - Samia Mohamed Esmat , TI - A study of melanocytes, melanocyte precursor cells and stem cell factor in responding and resistant lesions of vitiligo before and after photochemotherapy / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Dalia Mohamed Abdelhalim , KW - Kit KW - SCF \ c KW - Vitiligo N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Dermatology and Venerology; Issued also as CD N2 - PUVA therapy has long been considered a standard line of treatment for vitiligo that can stimulate melanogenesis . The response to PUVA therapy has always been deficient in some anatomical sites including hands, feet and periorificial areas . Treatment of these areas has always been a therapeutic challenge . To clarify causes of resistance at those sites by studying the expression of stem cell factor on keratinocytes and c - kit receptor on melanocytes in both resistant and responding lesions of vitiligo before and after photochemotherapy UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -