 Melanins
"Melanins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Insoluble polymers of TYROSINE derivatives found in and causing darkness in skin (SKIN PIGMENTATION), hair, and feathers providing protection against SUNBURN induced by SUNLIGHT. CAROTENES contribute yellow and red coloration.
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D008543
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.125.072.050.875.379 D23.767.620
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| 1989 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1992 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Melanins" by people in Profiles.
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Batai K, Cui Z, Arora A, Shah-Williams E, Hernandez W, Ruden M, Hollowell CMP, Hooker SE, Bathina M, Murphy AB, Bonilla C, Kittles RA. Genetic loci associated with skin pigmentation in African Americans and their effects on vitamin D deficiency. PLoS Genet. 2021 02; 17(2):e1009319.
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Teteh DK, Dawkins-Moultin L, Hooker S, Hernandez W, Bonilla C, Galloway D, LaGroon V, Santos ER, Shriver M, Royal CDM, Kittles RA. Genetic ancestry, skin color and social attainment: The four cities study. PLoS One. 2020; 15(8):e0237041.
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Jothishankar B, Stein SL. Impact of skin color and ethnicity. Clin Dermatol. 2019 Sep - Oct; 37(5):418-429.
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Lee EEL, Bezanilla F. Methodological improvements for fluorescence recordings in Xenopus laevis oocytes. J Gen Physiol. 2019 02 04; 151(2):264-272.
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Antic T, Taxy JB, Alikhan M, Segal J. Melanotic Translocation Renal Cell Carcinoma With a Novel ARID1B-TFE3 Gene Fusion. Am J Surg Pathol. 2017 Nov; 41(11):1576-1580.
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Burbulla LF, Song P, Mazzulli JR, Zampese E, Wong YC, Jeon S, Santos DP, Blanz J, Obermaier CD, Strojny C, Savas JN, Kiskinis E, Zhuang X, Krüger R, Surmeier DJ, Krainc D. Dopamine oxidation mediates mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction in Parkinson's disease. Science. 2017 09 22; 357(6357):1255-1261.
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McGregor SM, Alikhan MB, John RA, Kotler H, Bridge JA, Mujacic I, Kadri S, Segal J, Krausz T. Melanotic PEComa of the Sinonasal Mucosa With NONO-TFE3 Fusion: An Elusive Mimic of Sinonasal Melanoma. Am J Surg Pathol. 2017 May; 41(5):717-722.
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Fujimoto M, Basko-Plluska JL, Krausz T, Selim MA, Shea CR. Melanocytic tumors with intraepidermal melanophages: a report of five cases with review of 231 archived cutaneous melanocytic tumors. J Cutan Pathol. 2015 Jun; 42(6):394-9.
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Keren NI, Taheri S, Vazey EM, Morgan PS, Granholm AC, Aston-Jones GS, Eckert MA. Histologic validation of locus coeruleus MRI contrast in post-mortem tissue. Neuroimage. 2015 Jun; 113:235-45.
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Ritterhouse LL, Cykowski MD, Hassell LA, Slobodov G, Bane BL. Melanotic Xp11 translocation renal cancer: report of a case with a unique intratumoral sarcoid-like reaction. Diagn Pathol. 2014 Apr 15; 9:81.
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