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Chemical Characterization of Eumelanins with Special Emphasis on 5,6-Dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic Acid Content and Molecular Size
✍ Scribed by Hiroyuki Ozeki; Kazumasa Wakamatsu; Shosuke Ito; Isao Ishiguro
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 242 KB
- Volume
- 248
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-2697
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✦ Synopsis
Mammalian melanins exist in two chemically disnylalanine (dopa), 3 which is produced from tyrosine tinct forms: the brown to black eumelanins and the by the action of tyrosinase. Dopaquinone undergoes yellow to reddish pheomelanins. Eumelanins are dea series of redox reactions leading to eumelanin forrived from copolymerization of 5,6-dihydroxyindole mation (Fig. ).