Title : Eumelanin and pheomelanin concentrations in human epidermis before and after UVB irradiation.

Pub. Date : 2005 Jun

PMID : 15892719






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1 Pheomelanin is widely thought to be causally related to susceptibility to the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation: epidemiological studies show that those with a higher ratio of pheomelanin to eumelanin in hair have higher rates of melanoma, and work in mouse and cell culture shows that pheomelanin generates excess free radicals after UVR exposure. eumelanin pheomelanin Mus musculus