An electrochemical study of natural and chemically controlled eumelanin
APL Materials, 2017 Eumelanin is the most common form of the pigment melanin in the human body, with functions including antioxidant behavior, metal chelation, and free radical scavenging. This biopigment is of interest for biologically derived batteries and supercapacitors.
Ri Xu +5 more
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Use of multiphoton tomography and fluorescence lifetime imaging to investigate skin pigmentation in vivo [PDF]
, 2013 There is a growing body of literature showing the usefulness of multiphoton tomography (MPT) and fluorescence lifetime imaging for in situ characterization of skin constituents and the ensuing development of noninvasive diagnostic tools against skin ...
Dancik, Yuri +4 more
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International Journal of Electrochemical Science, 2012 A rapid, simple and highly sensitive flow-injection (FI) electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) method was developed for the determination of melanin, a biological pigment present in the skin, eyes, hair, scales and it is responsible for color of them.
Nawal A. Alarfaj +2 more
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Electron microscope study on the relationship between macrophages of the alevolar space and spheroid alveolar epithelial cells on mice after injection of squid-ink (sepia-melanin) solution into the trachea [PDF]
, 1977 The relationship between alveolar macrophages and spheroid alveolar epithelial cells was studied with the electron microscope after injection of squid-ink solution into the trachea of the mouse.
Suwa, Kiichi
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Size Control and Fluorescence Labeling of Polydopamine Melanin-Mimetic Nanoparticles for Intracellular Imaging. [PDF]
, 2017 As synthetic analogs of the natural pigment melanin, polydopamine nanoparticles (NPs) are under active investigation as non-toxic anticancer photothermal agents and as free radical scavenging therapeutics.
Amin, Devang +3 more
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Deposition Mechanism and Properties of Thin Polydopamine Films for High Added Value Applications in Surface Science at the Nanoscale [PDF]
, 2016 Polydopamine films have been introduced by Messersmith et al. as a possible “versatile” surface functionalization method allowing to coat the surface of almost all known materials even superhydrophobic surfaces.
Ball, Vincent +7 more
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Mycology, 2018 Production, purification and characterisation of a black pigment from Termitomyces albuminosus as melanin is reported, for the first time, from shaken submerged culture condition using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), elemental analysis, ultraviolet ...
Rosy Agnes De Souza +2 more
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Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine binding to melanin: Some possible consequences for pathologies
Toxicology Reports, 2014 For many years chloroquine was used as a prophylactic agent against malaria, and more recently as a mild immunosuppressive. However, due to lengthy treatment periods, adverse effects have become apparent, which included retinopathy.
R.L. Schroeder, J.P. Gerber
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Synthesis of Nm-PHB (nanomelanin-polyhydroxy butyrate) nanocomposite film and its protective effect against biofilm-forming multi drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus [PDF]
, 2017 Melanin is a dark brown ubiquitous photosynthetic pigment which have many varied and ever expanding applications in fabrication of radio-protective materials, food packaging, cosmetics and in medicine.
Dobson, Alan D. W. +4 more
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Fossilization of melanosomes via sulfurization [PDF]
, 2016 Fossil melanin granules (melanosomes) are an important resource for inferring the evolutionary history of colour and its functions in animals. The taphonomy of melanin and melanosomes, however, is incompletely understood.
Bull, Ian D. +6 more
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