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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 20.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Dermatol. 2014 Nov 18;24(3):171–174. doi: 10.1111/exd.12559

Figure 1. In situ transmission electron microscopy images of melanocyte and melanoma cells in culture.

Figure 1

Left panel, Stages of normal melanosomes in heavily pigmented melanocyte A: Stage 1, B: Stage 2, C: Stage 3, D: Stage 4. Right panel, abnormal melanosomes in MNT1 melanoma cells: note disruption of structure and difficulty in identifying stages. Adapted from our work Gidanian et al., 2008 [56].