melanocytes

"Our work suggested that a peculiarity in the MC1R receptor on melanocytes is responsible for a failure to tan," Fisher relates.

Real Sun Tan Without the Danger | Impact Lab 2006

You have these cells in your skin called melanocytes which give you the pigment that give you some color to your skin.

CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2007 2007

We believe there is a short circuit due to genetics or due to an environmental cause or infection that causes the immune system to start thinking the melanocytes are a foreign object like an infection.

The Seattle Times 2011

Mongolian spots technically named congenital dermal melanocytosis are flat bluish-green, gray or light brown areas where cells called melanocytes have been trapped in a layer of the skin called the dermis.

CNN.com 2011

The white patches appear when pigment cells, called melanocytes, are attacked and destroyed by the body's immune system.

The Seattle Times 2011

Normally an immune response is a good thing, but with vitiligo, cells that guard the body apparently become too aggressive, killing pigment-producing cells called melanocytes that give color to skin.

Newswise: Latest News 2010

Normally an immune response is a good thing, but with vitiligo, cells that guard the body apparently become too aggressive, killing pigment-producing cells called melanocytes that give color to skin.

Newswise: Latest News 2010

The melanocytes are the pigment producing cells located in the eye.

CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Janell.ross 2010

But their melanin-releasing cells, called melanocytes, also produce another chemical that causes skin inflammation, so Celtic-types burn easily when exposed to strong sunlight.

Home | Mail Online 2010

These and most studies on animal pigmentation to date have focused on the melanin system, in which specialized cells known as melanocytes produce either of two pigments-eumelanin or pheomelanin-resulting in different tone and colour of skin, hair and feathers.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pontus Skoglund et al. 2010