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Splenic melanosis in agouti and black mice.
Acta biochimica Polonica - 1 Jan 2015
Michalczyk-Wetula Dominika, Wieczorek Justyna, Płonka Przemysław M
Abstract excerpt
An interesting example of extradermal deposition of melanin in vertebrates, notably in mammals, is splenic melanosis. In particular, if the phenomenon of splenic melanosis is correlated with hair or skin pigmentation, it must reflect the amount and perhaps the quality of pigment produced in hair follicle melanocytes. The present paper is our first study on splenic pigmentation in mice of phenotype agouti. We used...
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