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Melanin and Melanin-Like Hybrid Materials in Regenerative Medicine [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2020 Melanins are a group of dark insoluble pigments found widespread in nature. In mammals, the brown-black eumelanins and the reddish-yellow pheomelanins are the main determinants of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation and play a significant role in ...
Chiara Cavallini +9 more
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Fungal Melanins and their Potential Applications: A Review [PDF]
BioResources, 2023 Melanins are complex molecules found in many organisms including bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals that have protective functions against stress. In fungi there are several biochemical routes for their synthesis, and their diversity and structural ...
Sac N. Salgado-Castillo +6 more
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Current Biology, 2020 Melanins are a unique class of pigments found throughout the biosphere with a wide variety of functions, structures, and presentations. Cordero and Casadevall highlight the wide range of places melanins are found and the diverse functions they play in nature.
Radames J B, Cordero, Arturo, Casadevall
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Molecules, 2022 We report herein an optimized procedure for preparation of carboxamides of 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA), the main biosynthetic precursor of the skin photoprotective agents melanins, to get access to pigments with more favorable ...
Rita Argenziano +3 more
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Журнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, 2023 Introduction. Influenza A virus is the cause of epidemics and pandemics that severely affect the health and socioeconomic status of the world's population.
Ekaterina I. Filippova +5 more
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Melanin, melanin "ghosts," and melanin composition in Cryptococcus neoformans [PDF]
Infection and Immunity, 1996 Melanin synthesis is associated with virulence for the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. Exposure of nonmelanized C. neoformans 4067 cells to 4 M guanidinium isothiocyanate followed by 6 M HCl at 100 degrees C resulted in complete solubilization of cellular structures. However, exposure of melanized C.
Y, Wang, P, Aisen, A, Casadevall
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Antioxidants, 2020 Eumelanins, the dark variant of skin pigments, are endowed with a remarkable antioxidant activity and well-recognized photoprotective properties that have been ascribed to pigment components derived from the biosynthetic precursor 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2 ...
Davide Liberti +4 more
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Synthesis of L-DOPA Based Melanins with Reproducible Physic-Chemical Properties [PDF]
, 2018 This report expands our ongoing research efforts into the non-enzymatic synthesis of melanins. We have explored four different methods for the synthesis of L-DOPA based melanins and evaluated the reproducibility of some of their physic-chemical ...
Jayla, Moore +3 more
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Melanin Chemistry and Melanin Precursors in Melanoma
Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 1989 @@@
Ito, Shosuke, Wakamatsu, Kazumasa
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Melanin ‘dust’ or ‘ghost’? [PDF]
Experimental Dermatology, 2016 To definitely verify the dogma of ‘melanin dust’ in the stratum corneum, Tobin et al have now reported a careful review of the literature with a vis-à-vis of the Fontana Masson (FM) and Von Kossa (VK) histochemical methods plus the Warthin-Starry (WS) stain on very thin cryosections of normal human skin and mouse pelage skin epidermis lacking ...
D'ISCHIA, MARCO +3 more
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