Photoprotective actions of natural and synthetic melanins

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1434-1440

  Krol, Ed S ^a   Liebler, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUMELANIN; FREE RADICAL; MELANIN; METAL COMPLEX; OXIDIZING AGENT; PHEOMELANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; LIGHT DAMAGE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MELANOGENESIS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOTOXICITY; SKIN PROTECTION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

HAIR; HUMANS; IRON; LIGHT; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIPOSOMES; MELANINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SUPEROXIDES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

SEPIA;

EID: 0032444187     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx980114c     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Prota, G. (1992) Melanins and Melanogenesis, 1st ed., Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
2. Pezzella, A., d'Ischia, M., Napolitano, A., Palumbo, A., and Prota, G. (1997) An integrated approach to the structure of sepia melanin. Evidence for a high proportion of degraded 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid units in the pigment backbone. Tetrahedron 53, 8281-8286.