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Mimicking Melanosomes: Polydopamine Nanoparticles as Artificial Microparasols

[Image: see text] A primary role of melanin in skin is the prevention of UV-induced nuclear DNA damage to human skin cells, where it serves to screen out harmful UV radiation. Melanin is delivered to keratinocytes in the skin after being excreted as melanosomes from melanocytes. Defects in melanin p...

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Autores principales: Huang, Yuran, Li, Yiwen, Hu, Ziying, Yue, Xiujun, Proetto, Maria T., Jones, Ying, Gianneschi, Nathan C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2017
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28691067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.6b00230