"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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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Melanocytes" by people in Profiles.
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Piccolo V, Moscarella E, Lallas A, Alfano R, Ferrara G, Argenziano G. MELTUMP: how to manage these lesions in the clinical routine. G Ital Dermatol Venereol. 2017 Jun; 152(3):266-269.
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Miller CT, Beleza S, Pollen AA, Schluter D, Kittles RA, Shriver MD, Kingsley DM. cis-Regulatory changes in Kit ligand expression and parallel evolution of pigmentation in sticklebacks and humans. Cell. 2007 Dec 14; 131(6):1179-89.
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Graham-Evans B, Cohly HH, Yu H, Tchounwou PB. Arsenic-induced genotoxic and cytotoxic effects in human keratinocytes, melanocytes and dendritic cells. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2004 Sep; 1(2):83-9.
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Chan J, Robinson ES, Yeh IT, McCarrey JR. Absence of ras gene mutations in UV-induced malignant melanomas correlates with a dermal origin of melanocytes in Monodelphis domestica. Cancer Lett. 2002 Oct 08; 184(1):73-80.
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Chan J, Robinson ES, Atencio J, Wang Z, Kazianis S, Coletta LD, Nairn RS, McCarrey JR. Characterization of the CDKN2A and ARF genes in UV-induced melanocytic hyperplasias and melanomas of an opossum (Monodelphis domestica). Mol Carcinog. 2001 May; 31(1):16-26.
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Kan-Mitchell J, Liggett PE, Harel W, Steinman L, Nitta T, Oksenberg JR, Posner MR, Mitchell MS. Lymphocytes cytotoxic to uveal and skin melanoma cells from peripheral blood of ocular melanoma patients. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 1991; 33(5):333-40.