Uv Light And Your Skin Melanin

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Melanocytes in the

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Stratum bassale produce melanin

Question 2

You could see melatonin

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In the skin ,hair, eyes,and brain

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Melanin can come in forms of

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Blacks,browns and reds

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Each melanocytes

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Can deliver melanin to many keratinocytes , mostly in the stratum spinosum

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The keratinocytes phagocytoses the melanin

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And position it over the nucleus

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Melanin protects the dna

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Of keratinocytes from mutation by uv radiation

Question 7

Ultraviolet lights stimulate melanocytes

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To produce extra melanin resulting in a tan

Question 8

Melanin can break down as it rises to the

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Too layers example corneum

Question 9

Abnormal skin colour jaundice

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Yellow of cornea

And of skin

Indicate liver dysfunction

Question 10

Abnormal skin colour cyonosis

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Bluish fingers and lips

Indicates low oxygen in blood

Question 11

Erethyum is another abdormal skin colour

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Red due to vasilation

Often indicates inflammation or infection

Question 12

Abnormal skin colour

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Pallour pale skin

Amenia or pour blood supply