Chemical Degradation of Melanins: Application to Identification of Dopamine-melanin

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 120-126

  Ito, Shosuke ^a   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Eumelanin; Melanin; Oxidation; Pheomelanin

Indexed keywords

ACID; DOPAMINE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROIODIC ACID; IODINE DERIVATIVE; MELANIN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; SOLUENE;

ARTICLE; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SOLUBILITY;

ACIDS; DOPAMINE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROLYSIS; IODINE COMPOUNDS; MELANINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0032044302     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1998.tb00721.x     Document Type: Article

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