A method of assessing cutaneous pigmentation in bovine skin

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1. Since the pigmentation of the skin cannot be assessed by visual examination of the hair or hide, a simple and convenient method of grading the cutaneous pigmentation of cattle based on the microscopic examination of skin sections has been described.2. The degree of cutaneous pigmentation of the skin of twenty body regions of three Ayrshire cows, two Ayrshire bull calves, two Sudanese Zebu bulls, one Sudanese Zebu cow and one Jamaican Zebu cow have been assessed by this method.3. The skin of the Zebu cattle was found to be much more heavily pigmented than that of the Ayrshire cattle.4. The dorsal and lateral regions of both the Zebu and the Ayrshire cattle were more pigmented than the ventral and leg regions.

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