A HYPOTHETICAL STRUCTURE OF MELANIN AND ITS RELATION TO BIOLOGY
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 14 (3), 233-237
Abstract
Measurements of optical absorption of synthetic and natural [human hair, bovine eye] melanins during their degradation in sodium hydroxide establish that from the optical point of view these polymers consist of 2 different parts. An explanation of this result and its possible relation to the biological role of melanin is given.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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