Acid hydrolysis reveals a low but constant level of pheomelanin in human black to brown hair

Pheomelanogenesis is promoted at a weakly acidic pH

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TPC2 controls pigmentation by regulating melanosome pH and size

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Chemical analysis of constitutive pigmentation of human epidermis reveals constant eumelanin to pheomelanin ratio

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Melanins and melanogenesis: from pigment cells to human health and technological applications

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Pheomelanin-induced oxidative stress: bright and dark chemistry bridging red hair phenotype and melanoma

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Impact of diagenesis and maturation on the survival of eumelanin in the fossil record

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Neutral pH and copper ions promote eumelanogenesis after the dopachrome stage

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Melanins and melanogenesis: methods, standards, protocols

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Photoaging of human retinal pigment epithelium is accompanied by oxidative modifications of its eumelanin

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High-performance liquid chromatography estimation of cross-linking of dihydroxyindole moiety in eumelanin

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An ultraviolet-radiation-independent pathway to melanoma carcinogenesis in the red hair/fair skin background

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UVA-induced oxidative degradation of melanins: fission of indole moiety in eumelanin and conversion to benzothiazole moiety in pheomelanin

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Direct chemical evidence for eumelanin pigment from the Jurassic period

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Human pigmentation genes under environmental selection

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Determination of Melanin Synthetic Pathways

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Usefulness of alkaline hydrogen peroxide oxidation to analyze eumelanin and pheomelanin in various tissue samples: application to chemical analysis of human hair melanins

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Age-dependent changes in eumelanin composition in hairs of various ethnic origins

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Regulation of DHICA-mediated antioxidation by dopachrome tautomerase: Implication for skin photoprotection against UVA radiation

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Human hair melanins: what we have learned and have not learned from mouse coat color pigmentation

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Isomeric cysteinyldopas provide a (photo)degradable bulk component and a robust structural element in red human hair pheomelanin

(2009) Giorgia Greco et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Independent regulation of hair and skin color by two G protein-coupled pathways

(2009) Catherine D. Van Raamsdonk et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Chemical analysis of late stages of pheomelanogenesis: conversion of dihydrobenzothiazine to a benzothiazole structure

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Current challenges in understanding melanogenesis: bridging chemistry, biological control, morphology, and function

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Characterization of human hair melanin and its degradation products by means of magnetic resonance techniques

(2008) Simona Ghiani et al.   MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY

Chemistry of Mixed Melanogenesis—Pivotal Roles of Dopaquinone

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