Le Tabagisme favorise la pigmentation cutanée: pourquoi ? (Pour les professionnels)

Smoking tobacco is known for inducing skin pigmentation. In vitro the authors cultures human epidermal melanocytes. When cultured with tobacco smoke extract: Pigment cells (melanocytes) grew to a large size and produced more melanin. Some melanocytes were irradiated with UVB light (another cause of pigmentation), and a similar production of melanin was observed. However the…