@article{18346,
  keywords = {Child, Female, Humans, leprosy, Male, Melanocytes, Monophenol Monooxygenase, Pigmentation Disorders, Skin},
  author = {Chatterjee A},
  title = {Melanocytic activity in leprosy lesions with special reference to cellular infiltrate.},
  abstract = {<p>To assess the correlation, if any, between the clinical hypopigmentation in leprosy affected skin and the inflammatory cellular infiltrate in d rmis, skin tissue sections from the maculo-anaesthetic and tuberculoid lesion of 50 cases were studied with Dopa and H & E stains. The results are indicative of (i) proportionate lack of Dopa oxidase activity in the hypopigmented leprosy lesions in commensuration with the relative degree of clinical hypopigmentation; (ii) cellular infiltrate is not related with the clinical hypopigmentation or dopa oxidase activity.</p>},
  year = {1976},
  journal = {Leprosy in India},
  volume = {48},
  pages = {142-8},
  month = {1976 Apr},
  issn = {0024-1024},
  language = {eng},
}