INVITRO STUDIES ON VITILIGO

[摘要] Date from cytological studies of 18 cases of vitiligo indicated the following results in which there was a favorable response to treatment with methoxsalen and UV light: the presence of melanocytes which are capable of forming pigment, the capacity for proliferation and/or migration of active melanocytes from adjacent pigmented areas to vitiliginous areas, and the ability of epithelial cells to receive pigment from the active melanocytes.