Pigment cell signalling for physiological color change.
In sea urchin larvae, the skeletogenic mesenchyme cells (4),
pigment cells (6), and muscle cells (7) are derived from mesodermal cells, and spatiotemporal and temporal-numeric studies of
pigment cells have been conducted in a variety of sea urchin species (8-11).
In
pigment cells, NO causes aggregation in amphibian melanophores (Nilsson et al., 2000, 2001) and dispersion in fish melanophores (Hayashi and Fujii, 2001).
Additionally, the
pigment cells aggregated and were fewer in number (Table 1; Fig.
Quantitative in vitro assay for crustacean chromatophorotropins and other
pigment cell agonists.
Melanoma is a cancer of the
pigment cells in our skin.
Cytoplasmic processes arising from the apical region of the photocyte extend into the surrounding reflecting
pigment cell processes [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 6 OMITTED].
They consist of no more than two cells: a photoreceptor cell and a
pigment cell.
The study published in the journal '
Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research' states that your genes along with exposure to sun has a great influence on the number and location of the moles on your body.
Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, 2019; DOI: 10.1111/pcmr.12779
Pigment Cell Research 2003; 16: 548-552, doi: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.
"This is transformative research because it provides new pathways for studying pigmentation and
pigment cell diseases," says study coauthor William Pavan, senior investigator in the Genetic Disease Research Branch at the National Institute of Health's Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Md.