Quantification of Melanosome Transfer Using Immunofluorescence Microscopy and Automated Image Analysis

Autor: Aishwarya, Sridharan, S Y, John Lim, Graham D, Wright, Leah A, Vardy
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2109
ISSN: 1940-6029
Popis: The study of skin pigmentation requires determining the rate of melanin production in melanocytes and quantifying the rate of melanosome transfer to keratinocytes. Here, we describe a method to quantify melanosome transfer using immunofluorescence microscopy coupled with automated image analysis of in vitro human melanocytes and keratinocytes in co-culture. In this method, the number of melanin capped keratinocyte nuclei is quantified.
Databáze: OpenAIRE