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SUBMITTER: Itou T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6696507 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Itou Takashi T Ito Shosuke S Wakamatsu Kazumasa K
International journal of molecular sciences 20190731 15
In a previous study, we showed that the size of melanosomes isolated from Japanese female hairs enlarges with age, and this affects the hair color. In this study, we analyzed the age-dependent changes in hair melanin in order to further explore the factors related to hair color changing by aging. A significant positive correlation with age was found in the total melanin amount (TM) and the mol% of 5,6-dihydroxyindole (DHI) units, while no correlation was found in pheomelanin mol%. TM showed sign ...[more]