Afamelanotide mastery course
Unit 2 of 12
MC1R and the melanin switch
Afamelanotide works by docking onto one receptor, MC1R, and triggering a chemical relay that ends in pigment. This unit…
How afamelanotide turns on the skin's pigment machinery
Afamelanotide works by docking onto one receptor, MC1R, and triggering a chemical relay that ends in pigment. This unit follows that relay from the receptor on a melanocyte down to the genes that build eumelanin.
It also covers the quieter half of the story: MC1R signaling protects skin in ways that do not depend on pigment at all, from DNA repair to calming inflammation.