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The skin contains different cells and tissues. For instance, it contains specialized cells called the melanocytes that produce melanin. Melanin is responsible for giving the skin its color.
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What is the name for the cancer of the skin's pigment producing cells?
The cells that produce color (melanin) in the skin can become cancerous and this cancer is called melanoma.
Skin stem cells can only produce other skin cells. what does this indicate about skin cells?
they are unipotent
What cells produces the protein melanin?
Melanin is the pigment found primarily in skin, giving it a brown colour whilst absorbing UV radiation and transforming it into harmless heat energy. It is also found in the hair, the tissue underlying the iris, and in some parts of the brain.dark hair, dark skin.
Skin stem cells can only produce other skin cells. What does this indicate about skin stem cells?
they are unipotent
Does the skin produce gametes?
No, However humans produce skin cells by mitosis and gametes by meiosis.
What do melanocyte produce?
Melanocytes are cells in the skin that produce a pigment called melanin.
What is the name for the cancer of the skin's pigment producing cells?
The cells that produce color (melanin) in the skin can become cancerous and this cancer is called melanoma.
Dark pigmented tumor?
Melanocytes are cells that produce the dark pigment, Melanin, which is responsible for the color of skin.
What are melonocytes?
Melanocytes are specialised cells that produce melanin. Melaninproduces pigment, a colour, which is found in the skin, hair and in the iris of the eye.
What is the function of the melanoblasts?
Melanoblasts are the branching cell and the bottom of the epidermis. ( This is one of the layers of the skin). These cells produce melanin which is a pigment in your skin. When your skin is exposed to the rays of sunlight more pigment is produced and this then helps to protect the deeper layer from the sun. Hope this helps.
What do melanocytes produce?
Melanocytes produce pigment. Pigment is what colors your skin. People of all races have about the same number of melanocytes but differ in the amount of pigment produced, thus giving a vast range of skin tones.creatine
What cells produce keratin and melanin?
Keratinocytes or squamous cells produce keratin and Melanocytes produce melanin, pigment.
How is a skin mole Formed?
By a buildup of pigment cells which determine skin color.
How does your skin get its color?
from melanin, a pigment produced by melanocyte cells inthe skin.
What composes eight percent of epidermal cells?
Melanocytes (melano-=black) these cells also produce granules which secrete a lipid-rich product that helps waterproof the skin. Melanocytes comprise about 8% if the epidermal cells and produce and secrete the pigment melanin.
What is the function of the melanocytes?
- A cell of the statum basale of the epidermis that synthesizes melanin and transfers it to the keratinocytes.- Any of the dendritic clear cells of the epidermis that synthesize tyrosinase and, within their melanosomes, the pigment melanin; the melanosomes are then transferred from melanocytes to keratinocytes.
What is a Dark-Colored pigment present in skin cells?
Melanin
