Abstract
Melanocytes (Mcs) are pigment-producing cells primarily found in the epidermis and hair follicles (HFs), where they transfer melanin to keratinocytes in the inner hair shaft (Colombo et al., 2011). Mc progenitor cells, melanoblasts, arise from neural crest cells during embryogenesis, migrate along the embryo, and colonize the epidermis and HFs (Petit and Larue, 2016; Vandamme and Berx, 2019). In the HF, mature Mcs are found in the bulb, whereas Mc stem cells (McSCs) are found in the bulge (Nishimura et al., 2002; Osawa et al., 2005; Vandamme and Berx, 2019).
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