Minela Aida Maranduca, Daciana Branisteanu, Dragomir Nicolae Serban, Daniel Constantin Branisteanu, Gabriela Stoleriu, Nicuta Manolache, Ionela Lacramioara Serban
The process of melanin synthesis and distribution is called melanogenesis, a process that is based on melanocytes present among the basal cells of the epidermis. Pigments formed in melanocyte melanosomes are then stored in the basal layer of epidermal cells, as well as in dermal macrophages, which become melanophores. From the embryological point of view, melanocytes derive from the melanoblasts of the neural crest, from where they migrate during the first months of life into the skin, eye, cochlea, bone, peripheral nervous system, heart and adipose tissue...
May 2019: Oncology Letters