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    Glossary Melanocyte

    cell producing melanin, pigment for skin, hair, eyes

    A melanocyte is a type of cell found in the skin, eyes, and hair follicles that produces melanin, the pigment responsible for the color of your skin, hair, and eyes. These cells play a crucial role in protecting the skin from harmful UV radiation by absorbing and dissipating it. In conditions like vitiligo or certain types of alopecia, the function or presence of melanocytes can be disrupted, leading to changes in pigmentation.

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    1. Skin melanocytes: biology and development Postepy Dermatologii I Alergologii · 2013 · 401 citations
    2. Hair Follicle Stem Cells Provide a Functional Niche for Melanocyte Stem Cells Cell stem cell · 2011 · 283 citations
    3. Hyperactivation of sympathetic nerves drives depletion of melanocyte stem cells Nature · 2020 · 260 citations
    4. Coordinated Activation of Wnt in Epithelial and Melanocyte Stem Cells Initiates Pigmented Hair Regeneration Cell · 2011 · 260 citations
    5. Melanocyte stem cells: a melanocyte reservoir in hair follicles for hair and skin pigmentation Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research · 2011 · 240 citations
    6. Towards a “free radical theory of graying”: melanocyte apoptosis in the aging human hair follicle is an indicator of oxidative stress induced tissue damage ˜The œFASEB journal · 2006 · 210 citations
    7. Melanogenesis is coupled to murine anagen: Toward new concepts for the role of melanocytes and the regulation of melanogenesis in hair growth 1993 · 210 citations
    8. Long-term follow-up of leucoderma patients treated with transplants of autologous cultured melanocytes, ultrathin epidermal sheets and basal cell layer suspension 2002 · 177 citations
    9. Human dermal stem cells differentiate into functional epidermal melanocytes Journal of Cell Science · 2010 · 164 citations
    10. The Lysosomal Protease Cathepsin L Is an Important Regulator of Keratinocyte and Melanocyte Differentiation During Hair Follicle Morphogenesis and Cycling ˜The œAmerican journal of pathology · 2002 · 146 citations
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