PHAGOCYTOSIS OF MELANIN PARTICLES BY HUMAN EPIDERMAL CELLS IN VITRO

[摘要] In the in vitro cell culture of a population of primarily epidermal cells, melanin granules (more precisely, the fully-melanized melanosomes) obtained from a mouse melanoma and from squid ink, when added to the cell culture, were actively phagocytized. India ink particles were phagocytized under similar conditions.