Reverse Engineering Applied to Red Human Hair Pheomelanin Reveals Redox-Buffering as a Pro-Oxidant Mechanism

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kim, Eunkyoung ^a,b   Panzella, Lucia ^c   Micillo, Raffaella ^c   Bentley, William E ^a,b   Napolitano, Alessandra ^c   Payne, Gregory F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; PHEOMELANIN;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HAIR; HUMAN; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PIGMENTATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

HAIR; HUMANS; MELANINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84950284226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18447     Document Type: Article

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