Insoluble polymers of TYROSINE derivatives found in and causing darkness in skin (SKIN PIGMENTATION), hair, and feathers providing protection against SUNBURN induced by SUNLIGHT. CAROTENES contribute yellow and red coloration.
    

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Peripheral cornea/conjunctiva

Melanocyte with disrupted actin cytoskeleton

Melanocyte showing melanosomes

Melanocyte in the conjunctival stroma

Pigmented epithelium - TEM

Melanins / R.A. Nicolaus.

Human melanin / Eugene Follmann.

Les altérations des globules rouges dans l'infection par malaria et la genèse de la mélanémie : mémoire / de E. Marchiafava et A. Celli.

Ethnic pigmentation : historical, physiological and clinical aspects / H. P. Wassermann.

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Melanins / R.A. Nicolaus.

Melanocyte with disrupted actin cytoskeleton

Human melanin / Eugene Follmann.

Les altérations des globules rouges dans l'infection par malaria et la genèse de la mélanémie : mémoire / de E. Marchiafava et A. Celli.

Ethnic pigmentation : historical, physiological and clinical aspects / H. P. Wassermann.