NOUN
- a cell in the basal layer of the epidermis that produces melanin under the control of the melanocyte-stimulating hormone
How To Use melanocyte In A Sentence
- They can exude psychoactive drugs, extremely powerful, highly targeted ones, from the melanocytes on their skin surface. TROPIC OF NIGHT
- It is an incurable congenital condition, due in its total form to absence of the enzyme tyrosinase, which is required for melanin to be synthesized in specialized cells - the melanocytes.
- The constituents of the dermis are mesodermal in origin except for nerves, which, like melanocytes, derive from the neural crest.
- Clusters of melanocytes may cause a mole, otherwise known as beauty mark, but the medical term is nevus. Malignant Melanoma: The Silent Killer
- One gene encodes a protein called agouti, which normally signals skin cells called melanocytes to produce a reddish-yellow pigment.
- Vitamin D, precursors, metabolites affect melanization cultured human melanocytes MyLinkVault Newest Links
- Axial transport of melanosomes in the dendritic arms of melanocytes is now recognized as another bidirectional dual transport system, containing microtubules near the central axis and subcortical actin filaments.
- Thus, greater pigmentary changes were observed in the forehead compared to the forearm, a finding compatible with the greater distribution of melanocytes in this anatomic area.
- Emodin hypo-acid, effective component of rhubarb, can affect proliferation of melanocyte and regulate activity of tyrosinase in cells.
- However, there is little evidence to show whether melanocytes in homeothermal vertebrates respond to visible light or not.
