Correlation between melanotype, solar sensitivity and pheomelanins quantification among Caucasian subjects;CORRELATION ENTRE MELANOTYPE, SENSIBILITE SOLAIRE ET QUANTITE DE PHAEOMELANINES CHEZ LES SUJETS CAUCASIENS

Nouvelles Dermatologiques

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 55-58

  Routaboul, C ^a   Msika, P ^b   Cesarini, J P ^c  

^a Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^b Ctr Rech Dermatol/CPF   (France)

^c LRTPH   (France)

Author keywords

hair color; melanotype; minimal erythemal dose; pheomelanin; phototype

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY;

EID: 0029939347     PISSN: 07525370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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