Article
Chemical characterization of hair melanins in various coat-color mutants of mice.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Sept 1995
Ozeki H, Ito S, Wakamatsu K, Hirobe T
Abstract excerpt
Mammalian melanins exist in two chemically distinct forms: the brown to black eumelanins and the yellow to reddish pheomelanins. Melanogenesis is influenced by a number of genes, the levels of whose products determine the quantity and quality of the melanins produced. To examine the effects of va...
Topics
- Animals
- Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
- Hair
- Hair Color
- Melanins
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Mutation
- Spectrophotometry