STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Swedish scientists say they have discovered skin pigment cells can be formed from completely different cells than previously thought.
... that create the peripheral nervous system, and pigment cells in skin and hair (or scales and feathers).
The new ...
"New technologies let us see cell types more clearly than ever before," said Weston, ...
... behavior of one type of embryonic stem cell: the pigment cell lineage of the neural crest. When mutated ... neural tube, leading to a deeply hyper-pigmented tadpole.
The body's natural biophysical signals ...
... that cause millions of people worldwide to lose their sight. The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is a layer of pigmented cells sandwiched between the visual retinal cells, called photoreceptors, and ...
... against UV radiation. It is made up of a substance called melanin, which is produced by pigment cells in the skin called melanocytes. According to the established theory of body pigmentation, these ...
... tube throughout the body, giving rise to such structures as pigment cells, cartilage of the head and a number ... generating migratory neural crest cells; vertebrates have just put them together in new ...
... exhibited similar abnormalities in red blood cell formation.
"Diamond-Blackfan itself is fairly ... called Kit ligand that stimulates the growth of pigment cells, which turned the mice's skin darker ...
... on ultraviolet (UV) radiation, according to a series of papers published in the October issue of Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, the official journal of The International Federation of Pigment Cell ...
... direction of swimming, computer simulations of larval swimming show.
The second eyespot cell, the pigment cell, confers the directional sensitivity to light. It absorbs light and casts a shadow ...
... a compound which, when introduced into Xenopus Laevis tadpoles, blocks the movement of the pigment cells that give the tadpoles their distinctive markings and which develop into the familiar greenish ...
... online edition of "Nature Genetics."
Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that develops from pigment cells called melanocytes. It is the most rapidly increasing cancer in the United States, according ...
Researchers have developed a new mouse model that allows them to replicate normal pigment cells at the earliest stages of conversion to malignant skin cancer in humans. After testing the mouse with a ...
... because they are small, transparent, and easy to propagate and maintain. Tumors created from the pigmented cells of zebrafish, known as melanocytes, are easy to see against their thin, light colored ...
... lost, they also turn into fully committed pigment cells and in the wrong place.
Now, they show in mice ... age. In addition to the aging-associated stem cell depletion typically seen in melanocyte stem ...
