Ethnic variation in melanin content and composition in photoexposed and photoprotected human skin

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 112-118

  Alaluf, Simon ^a,b   Atkins, Derek ^a   Barrett, Karen ^a   Blount, Margaret ^a   Carter, Nik ^a   Heath, Alan ^a  

^a UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Unipath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromameter; Colour; Eumelanin; Melanosome; Pheomelanin; Pigmentation

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; PHEOMELANIN;

ARM; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHEMISTRY; EPIDERMIS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LIGHT; MELANOSOME; METABOLISM; NEGRO; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ARM; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EPIDERMIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LIGHT; MELANINS; MELANOSOMES; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 0036091810     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2002.1o071.x     Document Type: Article

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