The usefulness of 4-amino-3-hydroxyphenylalanine as a specific marker of pheomelanin

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 225-232

  Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^a   Ito, Shosuke ^a   Rees, Jonathan L ^b  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4 Amino 3 hydroxyphenylalanine; Eumelanin; High performance liquid chromatography; Nitrotyrosine; Pheomelanin; Red hair

Indexed keywords

1,4 BENZOTHIAZINE; 1,4-BENZOTHIAZINE; 3 AMINOTYROSINE; 3 NITROTYROSINE; 3-AMINOTYROSINE; 3-NITROTYROSINE; 4 AMINO 3 HYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; 4-AMINO-3-HYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DRUG DERIVATIVE; EUMELANIN; MELANIN; PHEOMELANIN; THIAZINE DERIVATIVE; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; HAIR; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; STEREOISOMERISM; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HAIR; HUMANS; MELANINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; STEREOISOMERISM; THIAZINES; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE;

EID: 0036016311     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2002.02009.x     Document Type: Article

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