Skin Pigment of Black Mice

Melanocyte is a type of cell in an organism that is used for skin, so it is in its hair and fur. This fur and hair protects them from the sun and gives the fur and hair the colour. But because of these cells it can lead to skin cancer called melanoma. It is a very difficult to cure. A few years ago scientist have found a protein in the human body that is more than 50% melanoma. But over the years scientists are doing very well to make a treatment to cure it. Besides the treatment still this type of caner shows up in several patients. So scientist have tried to find how this melanocytes works, and will try to remove it from mice with black fur and see if the pigment changes.  But there was no changes in the pigment of the mice, but at birth then had a normal colour but as they grew they turned grey from black before coming white.  So since there is this changing it then means that the pigment cells clearly exist. The renewing of the pigment cells shows another step for treating melanoma. By blocking these proteins they could eliminate all cancerous stem cells.

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"Mice With Black Fur That Turns White Help Illuminate Skin Pigmentation." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 05 Oct. 2012. Web. 07 Oct. 2012. <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121005123809.htm>.