Effects of exogenous MSH on the transformation from phaeo- to eumelanogenesis within C57BL/6J-Ay/a hairbulb melanocytes.
Effects of exogenous MSH on the transformation from phaeo- to eumelanogenesis within C57BL/6J-Ay/a hairbulb melanocytes.
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外源性 MSH 对 C57BL/6J-Ay/a 毛球黑素细胞内从褐变到真黑素生成的影响。
DOI:
10.1111/1523-1747.ep12515889
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1991
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VanAmerongen,AW
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Granholm,NH;VanAmerongen,AW
The extent to which α melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) is a true in vivo regulator of melanogenesis in mice is unknown. The objective of this study was to determine if MSH-induced eurnelanogenesis in hairbulb melanocytes of yellow (AY/a) mice mimics the natural program of eumelanogenesis occurring in genetically black (a/a) hairbulb melanocytes. We conducted quantitative transmission electron microscopy on melanosome differentiation within MSH- treated regenerating 9-d hairbuibs of Ay/a and a/a mice. Results of exogenous a-MSH injections (5 dat 0.15 mM MSH) showed that the striking visual darkening of hair was accompanied by an incomplete transformation of phaco- to eumelanogenesis. Ontogenetic data on developmental stages I – IV of 3678 melanosomes based on geometric considerations (length, width, shape, and area) showed that MSH did not induce a complete transformation from spherical phaeomelanosomes to elliptical eumelanosomes. Also, observations on the number of vesiculoglobular bodies and matrix organization revealed that MSH-treated AY/a melanosomes retained distinct features of phaeomelanogenesis even after 5 d of MSH treatment. Thus, MSH induced a partial but incomplete pattern of eumelanogenesis in regenerating hairbulb. melanocytes of AY/a mice. The continued investigation of the dynamics of melanin synthesis in MSH-induced AY/a mice melanocytes possessing “mosaic” melanosomes could be productive in understanding fundamental relationships between tyrosinase activity, matrix function, matrix structure, and regulation of melanin (phaeo- and/or eumelanin) synthesis.