2007
DOI: 10.1590/s0365-05962007000600005
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Estudo comparativo morfofuncional de melanócitos em lesões de melasma

Abstract: FUNDAMENTOS - Melasma é hipermelanose comum caracterizada por máculas acastanhadas em áreas fotoexpostas, cuja fisiopatogenia não é totalmente esclarecida. OBJETIVOS - Caracterizar e comparar morfologica e funcionalmente os melanócitos da epiderme sã com os da pele afetada por melasma. MÉTODOS - Avaliaram-se 12 pacientes portadores de melasma facial, sendo realizadas biópsias da pele lesada e pele sã adjacente. Os cortes foram corados por hematoxilina-eosina, Fontana-Masson, marcados pelo Melan-A e submetidos … Show more

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“…1,2,8 Melanophages have been reported to be similarly present in lesional and nonlesional skin, and it may occur because epidermal photodamage plays no specific role in the genesis of melasma as melanocytes are unable to produce and transfer melanin in the dermal macrophage. 8,26 According to Kang et al, melanophages are present in the normal dermis of Japanese skin and, therefore, cannot be a hallmark of the dermal type of melasma. 1 Ponzio also found similarities in dermal melanin distribution between normal and lesional skin of patients with melasma of different clinical types.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…1,2,8 Melanophages have been reported to be similarly present in lesional and nonlesional skin, and it may occur because epidermal photodamage plays no specific role in the genesis of melasma as melanocytes are unable to produce and transfer melanin in the dermal macrophage. 8,26 According to Kang et al, melanophages are present in the normal dermis of Japanese skin and, therefore, cannot be a hallmark of the dermal type of melasma. 1 Ponzio also found similarities in dermal melanin distribution between normal and lesional skin of patients with melasma of different clinical types.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dermal inflammation was quantified in HE-stained sections based on the density of lymphocyte-equivalent particles showing a roundness of up to 50% segmented according to color cluster identification. 1,25,26 Epidermal melanin density was assessed in FontanaMasson staining by identifying melanin-equivalent pixels in the interfollicular epidermis that were segmented from the image according to color cluster identification. 25,26 Melanocyte linear density in the basal layer was determined in Melan-A-labeled sections.…”
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“…57,78 A pigmentação dérmica não difere na epiderme com melasma, e na pele sã adjacente, esse achado desabona a classificação em melasma epidérmico, dérmico e misto visto à luz de Wood. 2,57,59,63 Estudos recentes indicam que inúmeros peptí-deos exercem uma regulação autócrina ou parácrina dos melanócitos, na pele humana, e em diversas doenças pigmentares. São representados principalmente por: endotelina 1 (ET-1), fator estimulador de colônia granulócito-macrófago e fator stem cell tipo membrana (SCF).…”
Section: Melasmaunclassified
“…2 The estimate epidermic thickness, hyperkeratosis, parakeratosis, melanic pigmentation, depth of tumours, inflammatory infiltrate, volume of the glands, immunohistochemical marks, heterogeneity of chromatin, dermic elastosis and collagen alterations are some direct applications of morphometry to microscopic skin cuts. [3][4][5] In spite of the availability of specific commercial systems of morphometry, structures can be quantified using a simple microscope of light, attached to digital cameras and analyzed by free softwares such as the ImageJ, making it possible to promote the diffusion of quantitative research in dermatology. 6,7 In this study we present a strategy to estimate the density and intensity of collagenous fibers on the skin, which is an important variable in studies about ageing, genetic syndromes, fibromatosis and colagen diseases, besides therapeutic comparissons.…”
Section: Dermatopathologymentioning
confidence: 99%