How to Use melanocyte in a Sentence

melanocyte

noun

• Melanoma arises in the melanocytes, cells that produce melanin and give the skin color.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 1 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Melanoma, which starts in those pigment-providing melanocytes, can be much more lethal.
  — Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, SELF, 2 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Melanoma is a cancer that originates in melanocytes, the cells that produce the skin-color pigment melanin.
  — Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Next, hormones trigger changes in the melanocytes, or pigment cells, that give your nipples their color.
  — Kimberly A. Daly, Parents, 21 Aug. 2023
• When these melanocytes go into overdrive and produce too much color, the dark spots can occur.
  — Susan Brickell, Health.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Melanoma is a skin cancer that develops from melanocytes, cells that produce skin color.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• While most everyone has the same number of melanocytes, some people produce more melanin than others.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• With vitiligo, the immune system attacks and destroys melanocytes, the skin cells that produce melanin.
  — Daniella Midenge, Women's Health, 26 Apr. 2023
• Here's what scientists already knew: Skin pigment cells are called melanocytes.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 18 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The differentiated melanocytes in the hair bulb continued to pump out color.
  — Popular Science, 27 Jan. 2020
• After many such cycles, the stem cell melanocytes—which develop into melanocytes—in our hair follicles fatigue.
  — Connie Chang, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Skin color is determined by concentration of cells called melanocytes.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 18 Nov. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024