A black Lab or Boerboel will have a different type
of pigment granule in those hair shafts.
The quantification
of pigment granules was performed by transmission electron microscopy.
Another allele, on a different chromosome locus, can cause the arrangement or packed density
of pigment granules to give a brownish color in areas that are commonly black in many breeds: nose, dorsal haircoat, etc..
Not exact matches
The shape and chemical composition
of these
granules is identical to organelles found in cells called melanosomes; these being responsible for creating and storing the
pigment melanin.
The cortical cells are fibrous and contain
pigment granules of varying darkness that give hair strands their natural color.
Melanosomes are intracellular
pigment granules assembled in the cytoplasm
of melanocytes.
Matthew Shawkey, a biologist at the University
of Akron in Ohio who has been working with dinosaur researchers to figure out the colors
of those prehistoric beasts, adds that the study should help sway those skeptics who think that the melanosomes detected in some fossil specimens are really bacteria and not
pigment granules.
And they have made educated guesses about the color
of the
pigments in the melanosomes based on the
granules» sizes and shapes.
Close to such depigmented RPE cells, highly
pigmented macrophages identified by CD68 staining were located between Bruch's membrane and the RPE and in the subretinal space or within the choroid.The total number
of lipofuscin
granules was counted in the cytoplasm
of RPE cells from untreated and treated monkeys.
Abstract Purpose: To test the effect
of tetrahydropyridoethers (THPE) on
pigment granules of the retinal
pigment epithelium (RPE), monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) were orally treated with this drug for up to one year.
A population
of these cells forms a layer deep to the photoreceptors, where they contain intracellular
pigment granules and appear superficially like an extra RPE layer, even though they do not express at least two characteristic RPE proteins.
The presence
of intracellular
pigment granules along with the absence
of a subretinal cellular debris zone raise the possibility that these donor cells have (or acquire) the capacity to phagocytose surrounding waste material.
These darker spots are the result
of microscopic melanin
granules and present as flat,
pigmented areas found on your dog's tongue, gums and inside the lips and mouth.
Thus a yellow Lab or red - tan Boerboel will have hair
pigment granules reflecting wavelengths
of light in the red - yellow range
of the spectrum.
Before you start arguing, try to see that black and liver (chocolate) are simply modifications
of black
pigment granule arrangements in the cells.
E / e for the extension alleles that govern the distribution, if any,
of black
pigment granules.
«Bhavsar works with dried
granules of pigment in a very deliberate and precise approach, although it may appear random.
Different colors have different size
granules of pigment, giving each painting its own texture.
The paintings are composed almost completely from the tiny
granules of pigment.