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Chemical Characterization of Melanins in Sheep Wool and Human Hair

1 Apr 1996

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The color of hair and wool in mammals and feathers in birds is mostly determined by the quantity and quality of melanins that are synthesized in follicular melanocytes and transferred to keratinocytes. These are two chemically distinct types of melanin pigments: the black to brown eumelanins and the yellow to reddish pheomelanins. Melanins in sheep wool and human hair of various colors were characterized by HPLC...

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PMID: 8857665
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1996.tb00088.x

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