Racial Differences in the Fate of Melanosomes in Human Epidermis

@article{Szab1969RacialDI,
  title={Racial Differences in the Fate of Melanosomes in Human Epidermis},
  author={George Szab{\'o} and A Gerald and M. A. Pathak and Thomas Bernard Fitzpatrick},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1969},
  volume={222},
  pages={1081-1082}
}

• George Szabó, A Gerald, +1 author Thomas Bernard Fitzpatrick
• Published 1969 in Nature
• DOI:10.1038/2221081a0

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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