The regulatory basis of melanogenic switching.

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Melanin produced in follicular melanocytes is the major basis for pigmentation of hair and wool in mammals. Two major types of melanin may be synthesized, the black/brown eumelanin and the reddish/yellow pheomelanin. Based on available cell biological evidence and reasonable assumptions, a mathematical model is developed to improve our understanding of melanogenic switching, i.e. the switching between eumelanin...

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