melanophagy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

melano- +‎ -phagy

Noun[edit]

melanophagy (uncountable)

  1. The loss (by "eating away") of melanin
    • 2004, V. Krishna, Textbook of Pathology, page 1055:
      Melanin-bearing keratinocytes are more in number in the epidermal type; phagocytes with melanophagy in the papillary dermis characterize the dermal type of melasma.
    • 2020, Johanna Escoubet et al, "ABHD11, a new diacylglycerol lipase involved in weight gain regulation" in PLOS 1
      Only some eye defects were reported, including iris synechiae, melanophagy in the iris or the ciliary body ...
    • 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:
      In this study, we showed that ursolic acid inhibits skin pigmentation by promoting melanosomal autophagy, or melanophagy, in melanocytes.
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