How to Use melanocyte in a Sentence
melanocyte
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Melanoma arises in the melanocytes, cells that produce melanin and give the skin color.
—Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 1 June 2017
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Melanoma is a type of cancer that starts in melanocytes, or pigment-producing cells in the skin.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 6 Nov. 2019
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When skin is exposed to UV light, the body produces melanin, a dark pigment made by skin cells called melanocytes.
—Claire Gillespie, Health, 28 July 2023
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It is thought to be triggered by chemicals released from the nerve endings in the skin that are poisonous to the melanocyte skin cells.
—Emily Kirkpatrick, Peoplemag, 25 May 2023
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Melanoma, which starts in those pigment-providing melanocytes, can be much more lethal.
—Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, SELF, 2 Feb. 2018
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Melanosomes move from the melanocytes to different cells, like the epidermis, and deposit the pigments that give us the color of our skin, hair, and eyes.
—Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2019
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Melanoma is a cancer that originates in melanocytes, the cells that produce the skin-color pigment melanin.
—Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2018
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Once the hair was plucked and forcibly aged, the number of hair follicles with melanocyte stem cells stuck in the follicle bulge increased to nearly 50%.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2023
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Next, hormones trigger changes in the melanocytes, or pigment cells, that give your nipples their color.
—Kimberly A. Daly, Parents, 21 Aug. 2023
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When these melanocytes go into overdrive and produce too much color, the dark spots can occur.
—Susan Brickell, Health.com, 9 Apr. 2018
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Error 0: Melanoma comes from melanocytes, which are the skin cells that make melanin pigment (that produces skin color), Boulos said.
—Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2020
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These types of bumps or spots form when melanocytes, the skin cells that create melanin, clump together or grow in clusters rather than being spread out.
—Jenn Sinrich, SELF, 31 May 2019
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Melanin is produced by cells called melanocytes, which live in the base layer of our epidermis (the outermost layer of our skin).
—Rebecca Dancer, Allure, 13 Mar. 2020
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Melanoma is a skin cancer that develops from melanocytes, cells that produce skin color.
—Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
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While most everyone has the same number of melanocytes, some people produce more melanin than others.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
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Ultraviolet light prompts melanocytes to churn out more melanin, which is why your melasma may get worse in the summer and better in the winter.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 27 Aug. 2018
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The melanocytes act as a natural sunscreen by darkening your face and thus make the skin less susceptible to UV rays.
—Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 31 Mar. 2017
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With vitiligo, the immune system attacks and destroys melanocytes, the skin cells that produce melanin.
—Daniella Midenge, Women's Health, 26 Apr. 2023
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Here's what scientists already knew: Skin pigment cells are called melanocytes.
—Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 18 Oct. 2017
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Applying the compound to human skin activates the same tanning response as the sun: the melanocytes in the skin make pigment and then carry the pigment to other skin cells.
—Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 13 June 2017
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Applying the compound to human skin activates the same tanning response as the sun: the melanocytes in the skin make pigment and then carry the pigment to other skin cells.
—Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 13 June 2017
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Although all skin has the same amount of melanocytes, darker skin has more active melanin cells which can cause hyperpigmentation.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 2 Aug. 2023
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The differentiated melanocytes in the hair bulb continued to pump out color.
—Popular Science, 27 Jan. 2020
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After many such cycles, the stem cell melanocytes—which develop into melanocytes—in our hair follicles fatigue.
—Connie Chang, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2023
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There’s also evidence that UV light can push melanocytes—the cells that produce dark pigment in skin—to release endorphins, a feel-good chemical.
—Alice Park, Time, 7 Aug. 2017
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The melanosomes arrive there during development, when the melanocytes transfer them into specialized cells called keratinocytes that give rise to feathers and hair.
—Jakob Vinther, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2017
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Unlike melanocytes in mouse or human skin, zebrafish melanocytes are externally visible in their dark stripes and spotted scales.
—Craig Ceol, The Conversation, 10 July 2023
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Melanin is a naturally occurring substance or pigment produced by special skin cells called melanocytes that are found in one's skin, hair follicles, eyes and other parts of the body.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
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Skin color is determined by concentration of cells called melanocytes.
—Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 18 Nov. 2019
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In the new study, excessive osteopontin from melanocytes appeared to invade follicle stem cells, switching on hair growth.
—Max G. Levy, WIRED, 12 July 2023
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