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

doi:10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010.00755.x

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

Pigment cell & melanoma research - 1 Feb 2011

Ito Shosuke, Wakamatsu Kazumasa

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Hair pigmentation is one of the most conspicuous phenotypes in humans. Melanocytes produce two distinct types of melanin pigment: brown to black, indolic eumelanin and yellow to reddish brown, sulfur-containing pheomelanin. Biochemically, the precursor tyrosine and the key enzyme tyrosinase and the tyrosinase-related proteins are involved in eumelanogenesis, while only the additional presence of cysteine is...

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Animals
Hair
Humans
Melanins
Mice
Models, Biological
Mutation
Skin Pigmentation

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PMID: 20726950
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010.00755.x

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