melanogenesisn.
/ˌmɛlənə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnᵻsɪs/, U.S. /ˌmələnoʊˈdʒɛnəsəs/, /ˌmələnəˈdʒɛnəsəs/ Physiology.
The formation of melanin.
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elaboration1578
excretion1605
secrement1664
laboration1830
albuminization1843
vacuolation1858
vacuolization1882
glycogenesis1886
clumping1896
chemosynthesis1900
lysogenesis1901
melanogenesis1909
biosynthesis1918
lymphopoiesis1918
biogenesis1922
oncogenesis1932
induction1947
steroidogenesis1951
MAO1965
1909 Biol. Bull. 16 321 Our knowledge of what has been called the ‘mechanics of melanogenesis’.
1910 Amer. Naturalist 44 643 Since these granules increase in size and number during melanogenesis the difference in skin color..may be merely a difference in the point at which the essential melanogenetic process is stopped.
1938 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 126 255 The existence of purely photochemical melanogenesis, without the intervention of enzymes, is well known.
1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 404/2 It seems likely..that increased melanogenesis in the human albino subject is due either to unavailability of the substrate tyrosine or to deficient or abnormal tyrosinase.
1989 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 82 539/1 Melanogenesis is restricted to the melanosomes, controlled by tyrosinase, and postdopa-oxidase regulators.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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