### cell:

Melanocyte
* Most melanocyte stimulate hormones produce in glands
  - pituitary glands
* accumulate certain drugs to affect their action.
* act as factories for the production of granules of the pigment, melanin.
* are a stable and long-lived population of cells.
* are cells derived from the neural crest
  - located in the lower part of the epidermis
  - of neural crest origin
  - that make the brown pigment called melanin
  - characterized by long, fixed extensions of the outer cell membrane
  - dendritic and are distributed roughly one per six basal cells
* are epidermal cells which produce melanin
  - in the epidermis
* are melanin-producing cells found in the basal cell layer of the epidermis
  - located in the bottom layer of the skin's epidermis
  - more in the epi
  - most prevalent in the distal matrix and are absent in the nail bed
  - pigment producing cells in the skin
  - pigment-producing cells in the skin of humans and other vertebrates
  - skin cells that produce the dark protective pigment called melanin
* are the cells from which melanoma begins to develop
  - in the skin that produce melanin, the pigment that gives skin color
* are the cells that become cancerous in malignant melanoma
  - synthesize pigment
* are the cells which can lose control, and grow into a malignant melanoma
  - give rise to the development of malignant melanoma
  - little factories inside our skin that are responsible for producing melanin
  - transparent cells with dendrites
  - very difficult to grow in culture
* begin to make pigment
  - regionalize in the hair peg
* complete regional migration into the hair bulb.
* contain giant melanosomes.
* decrease in number to level in mature epidermis.
* develop from neuroectodermal elements in the early stages of gestation.
* form pigment in small particles, melanosomes, in a series of steps.
* have long, dendritic processes that reach the upper and lower layers of the epidermis.
* includes cell membranes
  - chromosomes
  - corpi
  - cytoskeletons
  - lobes
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* increase in number, differentiate, make premelanosomes
  - production of melanin and the numbers of melanosomes
  - the arborization of their cell processes
* insert granules of melanin into specialized cellular vesicles called melanosomes.
* is an epidermal cell
* manufacture melanin.
* populate the epidermis.
* produce melanin , which pigment that is the source of tanning
  - and are derived from neural crest cells
  - within cytoplasmic packets called melanosomes
* produce melanin, a pigment that darkens the skin
  - determines skin, eye, and hair color
  - which gets deposited into the epidermal cells
  - pigments in the form of melanin granules
  - the melanin
* produce the pigment called melanin
  - melanin , and are also in the inner layer of the epidermis
  - melanin, which contributes to hair, eye, and skin color
  - pigment, melanin , which generates our skin color
* produce the protective pigment called melanin
  - skin-darkening pigment melanin
* resemble nerve celss and are ssential for conveying energy.
* reside in the basal layer of the epidermis.
* synthesize melanin.
* transfer pigment to keratinocytes.