Meanings
- uncountableThe loss (by "eating away") of melanin
Only some eye defects were reported, including iris synechiae, melanophagy in the iris or the ciliary body ...
2020, Johanna Escoubet et al, "ABHD11, a new diacylglycerol lipase involved in weight gain regulation" in PLOS 12 more examples
Melanin-bearing keratinocytes are more in number in the epidermal type; phagocytes with melanophagy in the papillary dermis characterize the dermal type of melasma.
2004, V. Krishna, Textbook of Pathology, page 1055In this study, we showed that ursolic acid inhibits skin pigmentation by promoting melanosomal autophagy, or melanophagy, in melanocytes.
2020 October 15, Hyun Jun Park, Doo Sin Jo, Dong Sig Choi, Ji-Eun Bae, Na Yeon Park, Jun-Bum Kim, Jeong Ho Chang, Joong Jin Shin, Dong-Hyung Cho, “Ursolic acid inhibits pigmentation by increasing melanosomal autophagy in B16F1 cells”, in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, volume 531, number 2
Origin
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