Quantitative characterization and study of the relationship between constitutive-facultative skin color and phototype in Caucasians

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 303-307

  Rubegni, Pietro ^a   Cevenini, Gabriele ^a   Barbini, Paolo ^a   Flori, Maria Laura ^a   Fimiani, Michele ^a   Andreassi, Lucio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUNLIGHT;

ADULT; COLORIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 0033194334     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb08140.x     Document Type: Article

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