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MELANIN pigment in the skin is located in a very small granule, the melanosome1, which is barely visible in the light microscope. This melanosome is formed in the melanocyte and is transferred into the keratinizing or malpighian cell2.
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SZABÓ, G., GERALD, A., PATHAK, M. et al. Racial Differences in the Fate of Melanosomes in Human Epidermis. Nature 222, 1081–1082 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2221081a0
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