Examples of 'melanocyte' in a sentence

Meaning of "melanocyte"

melanocyte (noun): A type of cell in the skin responsible for producing the pigment melanin, which determines the color of the skin, hair, and eyes
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  • A cell in the skin that produces the pigment melanin.

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The precursor of the melanocyte is the melanoblast.
Melanocyte stem cells are called melanoblasts.
Tyrosinase is one of the known melanocyte differentiation antigens.
Human melanocyte culture and melanin assay.
Piebaldism is a rare autosomal dominant disorder of melanocyte development.
Located in the melanocyte is an enzyme called tyrosinase.
Hyperpigmentation is triggered by an unusual production of melanin by abnormal melanocyte.
Melanocyte populations are similar in all races.
It is particularly preferred that the skin cell is a melanocyte.
Stimulate melanocyte proliferation and promote melanocyte production.
These are poisonous to the melanocyte skin cells.
Melanocyte distribution is not uniform throughout the skin.
A melanoblast is a precursor cell of a melanocyte.
There is no melanocyte layer in the chorioid.
They possess dendritic processes resembling those of the melanocyte.

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Tear melanocyte meatal trophoz.
One of the hormones that it secretes is melanocyte stimulating hormone.
Due to melanocyte stimulation by metals.
Melanosomal contents are transferred from the melanocyte to multiple surrounding keratinocytes.
The melanocyte is the pigment producing cell of the skin.
Most hyperpigmentations result from melanocyte overactivity leading to melanin overproduction.
Melanocyte stimulating hormone.
Reduces melanocyte density.
Another cell type that is scattered throughout the epidermis is the melanocyte.
Each type of melanocyte can cause numerous types of pigmented lesions.
Keloid formation correlates with sites where melanocyte concentrations are greatest.
Enhances melanocyte formation by stimulating the natural process called melanogenesis.
It stimulates melanocyte reserves.
Usually melanocyte cells grow normally and so the growth is usually benign.
Maintain the appropriate pH in order for the melanocyte to synthesize melanin granules.
MSH triggers melanocyte proliferation and melanin synthesis.
This probe was used to screen the normal mouse melanocyte cDNA library.
The death of the melanocyte stem cells causes the onset of graying.
It is assumed that aMSH is an important signal for regulating various melanocyte functions.
Scientists successfully create melanocyte precursor cells using stem cell technology.
Scientists have used stem cell technology to successfully create melanocyte precursor cells.
The appearance of the melanocyte element is not associated with the papillomavirus.
It has been labelled the tanning ray because it stimulates the melanocyte to trigger melanogenesis.
These units are composed of a melanocyte surrounded by keratinocytes and regulated by a closed paracrine system.
Hair follicle stem cells provide a functional niche for melanocyte stem cells.
It usually appears as a result of melanocyte congestion on the border between epidermis and dermis.
We hypothesized that carbaryl exposure associated with uv solar radiation may induce melanocyte transformation.
This is because their melanocyte cells are unable to function until they get a bit older.
Silybin thus caused a significant increase in melanin production in the treated human melanocyte cultures.
This area is experiencing rapid hypopigmentation with melanocyte population and melanin production falling off.
Melanocyte Cell in the upper skin layer that produces the pigment melanin.
Ultraviolet light induces melanin production from melanocyte cells to cause sun tanning of skin.
Dysplastic naevi are considered to occupy a developmental middle ground between the benign melanocyte and CMM.
An exemplary schematic shows melanocyte progenitor markers used for identifying cells of a melanocyte lineage developed.
The invention provides specificity and sensitivity sufficient to identify a malignant melanocyte in a tissue sample.

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