Did You Know Melanin?

Melanin is a natural skin pigment. Hair, skin, and eye color in people and animals mostly depends on the type and amount of melanin they have. Special skin cells called melanocytes make melanin. Everyone has the same number of melanocytes, but some people make more melanin than others.

Do all humans have Neuromelanin?

Neuromelanin (NM) is a dark polymer pigment produced in specific populations of catecholaminergic neurons in the brain. It appears in greatest quantities in the human brain, in lesser amounts in some other non-human primates, but is absent from the brain in many lower species.

Who first discovered melanin?

The term melanin was for the first coined by C. P. Robin in 1873 and later research the specialized cells responsible for melanin synthesis in the skin, the melanocytes, were identified [3] . ...