Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Melanocytes
- Structure
- Long dendritic projections
- Small Nuclei
- Little cytoplasm
- Function
- Produces Melanosomes
- Move to keratinocytes
- Through dendritic projections
- Skin colour is due to ratio
- Of black eumelanin
- Red phaemalanin
- Once in cells
- Form a 'cap' over nucleus
- When exposed to UV
- MCR1 receptor activates
- Which increases melanosome production