What is the function of the melanocytes?

Answer 1

- 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.

Answer 2

Melanocytes are located in the bottom layer of the skin's epidermis, middle layer of the eye, inner ear, meninges, bones and heart. Melanocytes function is to produce melanin, which is the pigment primarily responsible for skin color.

Answer 3

The melanocyte will produce melanin which is what gives our skin the color that it has. If you are darker in skin tone, you produce more melanin. If you are lighter in skin tone, you produce less melanin.

Answer 4

Melanocytes are pigment producing cells in the deepest layer of your epidermis called the stratum basale. They are responsible for your skin color but also for protecting the nuclei of the other cells of the stratum basale, the keratinocytes, from the damaging effects of the Sun.

Answer 5

Melanocytes are the skin cells located in the outer surface epidermis, and responsible for skin and hair pigmentation. They produce melanin.

Answer 6

A cell in the epidermis that produces melanin (a dark-colored pigment that protects the skin from sunlight).

Answer 7

To stimulated and produce melanin resulting in a change of in the depth of skin colour