How do you use Pheomelanin in a sentence? See 4 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Pheomelanin meaning
A brown pigment produced by melanocytes
Using Pheomelanin
- The main meaning on this page is: A brown pigment produced by melanocytes
Context around Pheomelanin
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pheomelanin
- In this selection, "pheomelanin" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, produce stand out and add context to how "pheomelanin" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include both pheomelanin and eumelanin and eumelanin and pheomelanin. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pheomelanin" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pheomelanin
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Redheads only produce pheomelanin, while dark-skinned people accumulate mainly eumelanin. (11 words)
For instance, in Agouti mice, the hair appears brown because of alternation between black eumelanin production and a yellow variety of pheomelanin. (22 words)
Both pheomelanin and eumelanin are found in human skin and hair, but eumelanin is the most abundant melanin in humans, as well as the form most likely to be deficient in albinism. (32 words)
The difference in skin color between lightly and darkly pigmented individuals is due not to the number (quantity) of melanocytes in their skin, but to the melanocytes' level of activity (quantity and relative amounts of eumelanin and pheomelanin ). (38 words)
Both pheomelanin and eumelanin are found in human skin and hair, but eumelanin is the most abundant melanin in humans, as well as the form most likely to be deficient in albinism. (32 words)
For instance, in Agouti mice, the hair appears brown because of alternation between black eumelanin production and a yellow variety of pheomelanin. (22 words)
Example sentences (4)
Redheads only produce pheomelanin, while dark-skinned people accumulate mainly eumelanin.
Both pheomelanin and eumelanin are found in human skin and hair, but eumelanin is the most abundant melanin in humans, as well as the form most likely to be deficient in albinism.
For instance, in Agouti mice, the hair appears brown because of alternation between black eumelanin production and a yellow variety of pheomelanin.
The difference in skin color between lightly and darkly pigmented individuals is due not to the number (quantity) of melanocytes in their skin, but to the melanocytes' level of activity (quantity and relative amounts of eumelanin and pheomelanin ).