Skin responses to ultraviolet radiation: Effects of constitutive pigmentation, sex, and ancestry

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 385-390

  Wagner, Jennifer K ^a   Parra, Esteban J ^a   Norton, Heather L ^a   Jovel, Celina ^a   Shriver, Mark D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ERYTHEMA; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUNBURN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ERYTHEMA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANINS; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUNBURN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0036784368     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2002.02046.x     Document Type: Article

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