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Abstract
Chemical and ultrastructural studies were conducted to define the relationship between type of melanogenesis and fine structures of melanosomes in normal human epidermal melanocytes. Chemical analysis of epidermal melanin demonstrated that the ratio of eumelanin/pheomelanin varied individually, ranging from 1.31 to exclusively eumelanic. Ultrastructural analysis of fine structures of melanosomes revealed that spheroid melanosomes were frequently observed in melanocytes of the epidermis whose eumelanin/ pheomelanin ratio was less than 5. Conversely, ellipsoid melanosomes predominated in melanocytes of the epidermis whose ratio was more than 10. On the basis of these findings, it seems reasonable to conclude that 1) normal human epidermal melanocytes synthesize both eumelanin and pheomelanin and 2) pheomelanin synthesis may be characterized by the presence of spheroid melanosomes whereas eumelanin synthesis is ascribed to ellipsoid melanosomes.
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