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melanin metabolic process
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melanin metabolism
The chemical reactions and pathways involving melanins, pigments largely of animal origin. High molecular weight polymers of indole quinone, they are…
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2014
2014
Visual Defect in Oculocutaneous Albinism is Not Associated with Gross Structural Anomaly
Ajose Fo
,
A. Gog
,
+6 authors
Akinola Ra
2014
Corpus ID: 4572060
Background: Albinism is a heterogeneous group of inherited non progressive disorders of melanin metabolism. The two main types…
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2012
2012
Activation of autophagic programmed cell death and innate immune gene expression reveals immuno-competence of integumental epithelium in Bombyx mori infected by a dipteran parasitoid
A. Pradeep
,
J. Anitha
,
+6 authors
N. B. Vijayaprakash
Cell and Tissue Research
2012
Corpus ID: 17218218
In insects, the integument forms the primary barrier between the environment and internal milieu, but cellular and immune…
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2009
2009
The effect of a phenylalanine-tyrosine low diet on the growth and morphology of transplantable malignant melanomas of the Syrian golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus).
O. A. Jensen
,
J. Egeberg
,
J. Edmund
Acta pathologica et microbiologica Scandinavica…
2009
Corpus ID: 45137743
Syrian golden hamsters carrying transplantable subcutaneous melanomas were fed a diet low in phenylalanine and tyrosine a.m…
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1994
1994
O-methylation of L-dopa in melanin metabolism and the presence of catechol-O-methyltransferase in melanocytes.
N. Smit
,
C. Tilgmann
,
+4 authors
S. Pavel
Pigment Cell Research
1994
Corpus ID: 566823
O-Methylation of L-dopa was investigated as a possible regulatory mechanism in melanin metabolism. The methylation product of L…
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Review
1988
Review
1988
Mechanisms of hypopigmentation in human oculocutaneous albinism.
R. King
,
D. P. Olds
,
D. Townsend
Progress in clinical and biological research
1988
Corpus ID: 21214776
The synthesis of melanin is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom and is under complex genetic control. Inborn errors of melanin…
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1982
1982
Ultrastructural, histochemical and biochemical studies of the melanin metabolism in pallid mouse eye.
Masaaki Ito
,
Ken Hashimoto
,
D. Organisciak
Current Eye Research
1982
Corpus ID: 21912820
In an attempt to determine the factors involved in ocular pigment variation, the eyes of pallid mice (c57BL/6J-Pa/Pa), and those…
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1981
1981
Iris pigmentation (melanin) in idiopathic dystonic syndromes including torticollis
J. Korein
Annals of Neurology
1981
Corpus ID: 26972729
Iris pigmentation was evaluated in 153 Caucasian patients with torticollis and other focal, segmental, or generalized dystonias…
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1972
1972
Effect of thyroxine on melanin content in liver of toad (Bufo melanostictus).
A. Ray
,
A. K. Medda
Endocrinology
1972
Corpus ID: 37733333
Thyroxine injection (0.01-2.0 ug per g of body weight, single injection) in male toads caused a marked increase in melanin con…
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1969
1969
Effect of catechol O-methyl transferase in schizophrenia.
P. Hall
,
G. Hartridge
,
G. V. van Leeuwen
Archives of General Psychiatry
1969
Corpus ID: 31302996
THE WRITERS have attempted to treat a group of patients suffering from schizophrenia with catechol O-methyl transferase (OMT). It…
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1946
1946
Factors affecting survival in adrenalectomized rats.
E. P. Ralli
Endocrinology
1946
Corpus ID: 41327148
IN THE COURSE of studies on the alteration of melanin metabolism in adrenalectomized black rats maintained on diets deficient in…
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