Ocular pigmentation in white cats with blue and yellow eyes and in Siamese cats was examined ophthalmoscopically and histologically. Yellow-eyed white cats had entirely normal ocular pigmentation. Blue eyes of white cats had normal pigmentation of the iridial and retinal pigment epithelia but no stromal pigmentation of the iris or choroid. This deficit is apparently due to the absence of stroma...

The pigmentation of human gingival tissue is derived from melanin granules, which are synthesized in the melanosomes of melanocytes [1,2]. The nicotine present in tobacco activates melanocytes to promote melanin secretion [3]. Therefore, the melanin pigmentation in gingival tissues has a strong correlation with smoking [4,5]. In 1977, Hedin et al. [5] first reported that smokers showed more pig...

objectives this study investigates the prevalence of burning mouth symptom for the first time in an institutional group of patients in shiraz, iran, among whom some were found to have bms through excluding the recognizable physical or biochemical causes of mouth burning. methods in this cross sectional study, from the existing records of 2 533 patients who referred to shiraz dental school since...

OBJECTIVE Passive smoking leads to melanin pigmentation on gingiva. However, documentation of gingival pigmentation and salivary amylase activity in passive smokers relative to the duration of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), is incomplete and requires further investigation. Thus, this study aimed to assess effects of ETS exposure on gingival pigmentation in young adults. In addit...

Faces each have distinct pigmentation as well as shape, which suggests that both cues may play a role in the perception of faces. However, there is a common implicit assumption that pigmentation cues are relatively unimportant, and so the role pigmentation plays in face perception has gone largely unexplored. This thesis is a systematic investigation of the role of pigmentation in face recognit...

There have been few previous studies of the kinetics of pigmentation following ultraviolet B (UVB) exposure, and these have included only fair-skinned persons. The current study investigated pigmentation increase to steady state and fading in 12 Scandinavians and 12 Indians/Pakistanis. Over a period of 3 weeks the subjects were UV-irradiated 6 times on the right side of the back and 12 times on...

a research study was carried out on the indirect selection efforts amongst small scale holders of west african dwarf (wad) goats based on coat pigmentation and wattle types in ogbomoso, nigeria using personal interviews and structured questionnaires given using simple random on-farm techniques. the questionnaires were focused on the ownership distribution, preferred pigmentation and wattle type...

Skin pigmentation is a major feature of skin, and marker associated with beauty, health aging. Among the past genome-wide association studies on skin pigmentation, relatively small proportion have focused Chinese population. Large-scaled based measured phenotypes are particularly rare in other East Asian populations. In Jidong cohort study (N = 3,544), we low-exposed area colorimeter performed ...