Detection of a fine lamellar gridwork after degradation of ocular melanin granules by cultured peritoneal macrophages

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 248-254

  Schraermeyer, Ulrich ^a   Dohms, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Lysosome; Melanocyte; Retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; MURINAE;

MELANIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GRANULE; CHOROID; CYTOLOGY; MELANOCYTE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOME; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOROID; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOMES; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE;

EID: 0030255017     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1996.tb00114.x     Document Type: Article

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