Melanocytes

"Melanocytes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Mammalian pigment cells that produce MELANINS, pigments found mainly in the EPIDERMIS, but also in the eyes and the hair, by a process called melanogenesis. Coloration can be altered by the number of melanocytes or the amount of pigment produced and stored in the organelles called MELANOSOMES. The large non-mammalian melanin-containing cells are called MELANOPHORES.

Descriptor ID	D008544
MeSH Number(s)	A11.436.613
Concept/Terms	Melanocytes Melanocytes Melanocyte

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Melanocytes".

Anatomy [A]
Cells [A11]
Epithelial Cells [A11.436]
Melanocytes [A11.436.613]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Melanocytes".

Melanocytes
Melanosomes

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Bar chart showing 55 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2017 and 2018

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	2	0	2
1999	0	1	1
2003	0	1	1
2004	1	0	1
2005	1	0	1
2006	1	1	2
2007	1	1	2
2008	0	1	1
2009	1	0	1
2010	1	1	2
2011	1	1	2
2012	1	2	3
2013	1	2	3
2014	0	3	3
2015	2	1	3
2016	2	0	2
2017	3	1	4
2018	2	2	4
2019	2	1	3
2020	1	2	3
2021	2	0	2
2022	0	2	2
2023	2	1	3
2024	1	0	1
2025	0	3	3

Below are the most recent publications written about "Melanocytes" by people in Profiles.

Long TJ, Pearson TF, Harris JE. Deciphering Depigmentation: Mouse Models for Vitiligo Research. J Invest Dermatol. 2025 Sep; 145(9):2135-2146.

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Ricardo JW, Bellet JS, Jellinek N, Lee D, Miller CJ, Piraccini BM, Richert B, Rubin AI, Lipner SR. Evaluation and diagnosis of longitudinal melanonychia: A clinical review by a nail expert group. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2025 Jul; 93(1):176-187.

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Ezzedine K, Tannous R, Pearson TF, Harris JE. Recent clinical and mechanistic insights into vitiligo offer new treatment options for cell-specific autoimmunity. J Clin Invest. 2025 Jan 16; 135(2).

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Hamzavi IH, Ganesan AK, Mahmoud BH, Weiss E, Ahmed AM, Robinson D, Goldman MP, Munavalli G, Kahn SA, Huang V, Waibel J, Desai A, Elbuluk N, Desai S, Pandya AG. Effective and durable repigmentation for stable vitiligo: A randomized within-subject controlled trial assessing treatment with autologous skin cell suspension transplantation. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2024 Dec; 91(6):1104-1112.

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Gentien D, Saberi-Ansari E, Servant N, Jolly A, de la Grange P, N?mati F, Liot G, Saule S, Teissandier A, Bourc'his D, Girard E, Wong J, Masliah-Planchon J, Narmanli E, Liu Y, Torun E, Goulancourt R, Rodrigues M, Gaud? LV, Reyes C, Bazire M, Chenegros T, Henry E, Rapinat A, Bohec M, Baulande S, M'kacher R, Jeandidier E, Nicolas A, Ciriello G, Margueron R, Decaudin D, Cassoux N, Piperno-Neumann S, Stern MH, Gibcus JH, Dekker J, Heard E, Roman-Roman S, Waterfall JJ. Multi-omics comparison of malignant and normal uveal melanocytes reveals molecular features of uveal melanoma. Cell Rep. 2023 09 26; 42(9):113132.

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Refat MA, Strassner JP, Frisoli ML, Rashighi M, Richmond J, Nada E, Saleh R, El-Hamd MA, Goldberg D, Mahmoud BH, Harris JE. Lesional CD8+ T-Cell Number Predicts Surgical Outcomes of Melanocyte-Keratinocyte Transplantation Surgery for Vitiligo. J Invest Dermatol. 2023 11; 143(11):2275-2282.e6.

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Frantz WT, Iyengar S, Neiswender J, Cousineau A, Maehr R, Ceol CJ. Pigment cell progenitor heterogeneity and reiteration of developmental signaling underlie melanocyte regeneration in zebrafish. Elife. 2023 04 06; 12.

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Vittoria MA, Kingston N, Kotynkova K, Xia E, Hong R, Huang L, McDonald S, Tilston-Lunel A, Darp R, Campbell JD, Lang D, Xu X, Ceol CJ, Varelas X, Ganem NJ. Inactivation of the Hippo tumor suppressor pathway promotes melanoma. Nat Commun. 2022 06 29; 13(1):3732.

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Essien KI, Katz EL, Strassner JP, Harris JE. Regulatory T Cells Require CCR6 for Skin Migration and Local Suppression of Vitiligo. J Invest Dermatol. 2022 12; 142(12):3158-3166.e7.

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Katz EL, Harris JE. Translational Research in Vitiligo. Front Immunol. 2021; 12:624517.

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