Pigment of yellow wool

✍ Scribed by J.S.H.

• Book ID: 104128599
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1932
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 61 KB
• Volume: 214
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(32)90817-5

✦ Synopsis

They find that lanaurin apparently is a pyrrole complex, intermediate between the bile pigments and fully condensed melanin. It is produced from the hemoglobin of the blood by an inherited hyperactivity of certain cells, which are known collectively as the reticuloendothelial system, is secreted in the perspiration, and dyes the wool.

J. S. H.