Melanocytes
"Melanocytes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Mammalian pigment cells that produce MELANINS, pigments found mainly in the EPIDERMIS, but also in the eyes and the hair, by a process called melanogenesis. Coloration can be altered by the number of melanocytes or the amount of pigment produced and stored in the organelles called MELANOSOMES. The large non-mammalian melanin-containing cells are called MELANOPHORES.
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D008544
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.436.613
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Melanocytes" by people in Profiles.
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Ng RY, Siu DY, Wong GK, Ng HK, Poon WS. An uncommon mimic of spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage. Hong Kong Med J. 2013 Feb; 19(1):80-1.
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Murray MJ, Cavey DM, Feldman BF, Trostle SS, White NA. Signs of sympathetic denervation associated with a thoracic melanoma in a horse. J Vet Intern Med. 1997 Jul-Aug; 11(4):199-203.
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McGuire J, Moellmann G, McKeon F. Cytochalasin B and pigment granule translocation. Cytochalasin B reverses and prevents pigment granule dispersion caused by dibutyryl cyclic AMP and theophylline in Rana pipiens Melanocytes. J Cell Biol. 1972 Mar; 52(3):754-8.