GENES INVOLVED IN REGULATING THE MELANOCYTE AND MELANOBLAST-MELANOCYTE POPULATIONS IN THE EPIDERMIS OF NEWBORN MOUSE SKIN
GENES INVOLVED IN REGULATING THE MELANOCYTE AND MELANOBLAST-MELANOCYTE POPULATIONS IN THE EPIDERMIS OF NEWBORN MOUSE SKIN
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DOI:
10.1002/jez.1402230307
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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HIROBE, T
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HIROBE, T
In the dorsal epidermis of C57BL/10J and C3H/He mice, the number of melanocytes positive to the dopa reaction increased from birth to 3 or 4 days of age, and then gradually decreased and disappeared by 30 days of age. The number of melanoblasts plus melanocytes positive to the combined dopa-premelanin reaction remained constant until 3 or 4 days of age and then decreased in both strains. Despite the similarity of the change in these populations from birth onwards, there was a significant difference in the number of such cells between the 2 strains. Both melanocytes and melanoblasts in C3H/He were fewer than in C57BL/10J mice. The F1, F2 and backcross matings were performed to gain some information about the genetic basis of the difference. In the F2 generation the offspring from reciprocal crosses exhibited intermediate values in both populations. The F2 generation included the C3H/He type, F1 type and C57BL/10J type in a ratio of .apprx. 1:2:1 in both populations. Both reciprocal backcrosses gave ratios of parent type to F1 type, which did not differ significantly from 1:1 in either population. The melanocyte and melanoblastmelanocyte populations in the dorsal epidermis of newborn mouse skin are controlled by semidominant genes.