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Pigment

Known as: pigments 
A substance that gives color to tissue. Pigments are responsible for the color of skin, eyes, and hair.
National Institutes of Health

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BURNT UMBEREye ColorPigmentation

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Bile PigmentsCarotenoidsFlavinsHemoglobin

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Biological Factors

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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Sorting out metagenomes
An ingenious screening method exploiting substrate induction of gene expression provides a rapid means of identifying new… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Molecular basis of tyrosinase-negative oculocutaneous albinism. A single base mutation in the tyrosinase gene causing arginine to glutamine substitution at position 59.
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
The Biochemistry of Natural Pigments
Preface Part I. Chemical and biochemical aspects: 1. Light and colour 2. Carotenoids 3. Quinones 4. O-Heterocyclic pigments - the… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Melanomas in horses.
ImagesFig. 1A, BFig. 1C, D 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Human liver mitochondria.
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Heterogeneity of bile pigment conjugates as revealed by chromatography of their ethyl anthranilate azopigments.
1. Azopigments derived from conjugated bile pigments by coupling with the diazonium salt of ethyl anthranilate are analysed… 
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
THE DEMONSTRATION OF ACID HYDROLASE, THERMOSTABLE REDUCED DIPHOSPHOPYRIDINE NUCLEOTIDE TETRAZOLIUM REDUCTASE AND PEROXIDASE ACTIVITIES IN HUMAN LIPOFUSCIN PIGMENT GRANULES
The characterization of human lipofuscin pigment granules as lysosomes is strengthened by the cytochemical demonstration of… 
Highly Cited
1959
Highly Cited
1959
Respiration and light-induced phosphorylation in extracts of Rhodospirillum rubrum.
Highly Cited
1955
Highly Cited
1955
Post-traumatic renal insufficiency in military casualties. I. Clinical characteristics.
Highly Cited
1944
Highly Cited
1944
Studies of Eye Pigments of Drosophila. I. Methods of Extraction and Quantitative Estimation of the Pigment Components.
ICROSCOPIC observation, as well as solubility tests and studies of the M effects of gene substitutions, have shown that the… 
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