Skin pigmentation and pharmacokinetics of melanotan-I in humans

Biopharmaceutics and Drug Disposition

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 259-269

  Ugwu, Sydney O ^b   Blanchard, James ^a   Dorr, Robert T ^b   Levine, Norman ^b   Brooks, Christine ^b   Hadley, Mac E ^b   Aickin, Mikel ^b   Hruby, Victor J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

humans; melanotan I; pharmacokinetics; pigmentation

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIN DERIVATIVE; MELANOTAN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG HALF LIFE; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHARMACOKINETICS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030894458     PISSN: 01422782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-081X(199704)18:3<259::AID-BDD20>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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