melanotic.macule Oral pathology: Noting a pigmented macule that often presents a diagnostic dilemma DermDx: Brown Macule on Lip

Frontiers in pharmacology

(PubMed) World Health Organization

Melanocytes can also function as neuroendocrine cells by producing acetylcholine, catecholamines, and POMC-derived peptides, which have the capacity to mediate local immunoinflammatory and antimicrobial responses and to modulate the biological behaviour of oral tissues [4]

We get into the perils of literary-kid memoir, the NYC book-scene she grew up in, her parents divorce and how it led to her learning way too much about her dads sexuality at 10 years old, and the challenges of capturing her early selves without jarring the reader

Conditional ablation of C/EBP beta demonstrates its keratinocyte-specific requirement for cell survival and mouse skin tumorigenesis