Potential Cosmetic Whitening Agents from Insect Cuticle: Tyrosinase Inhibitory Activity of N-Acetyldopamine Dimers from Exuviae of Cicada, Cryptotympana tustulata FABR.

Journal of Oleo Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 355-358

  Tada, Takahiro ^a   Ohnishi, Kazuomi ^b   Suzuki, Kouichi ^a   Tomita, Hiroki ^a   Okamori, Mariko ^a   Katuzaki, Hirotaka ^a   Komiya, Takashi ^a   Imai, Kunio ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mikimoto Pharmaceutical Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptotympana tustulata FABR; dimer; NADA; tyrosinase inhibitory activity; whitening

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956191420     PISSN: 13458957     EISSN: 13473352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5650/jos.51.355     Document Type: Article

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