The physiological and phenotypic determinants of human tanning measured as change in skin colour following a single dose of ultraviolet B radiation

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 667-673

  Wong, Terence H ^a   Jackson, Ian J ^b   Rees, Jonathan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pigmentation; Skin colour; Tanning; Ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BUTTOCK; ERYTHEMA; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RADIATION DOSE; REFLECTOMETRY; SEX; SKIN COLOR; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ERYTHEMA; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUNTAN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954654800     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2010.01078.x     Document Type: Article

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