The acid-soluble pigment of red human hair
- 1 August 1938
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 32 (8) , 1281-1284
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0321281
Abstract
If red human hair is extracted with boiling 0.1 N hydrochloric acid, a red-brown pigment is obtained in soln. This pigment has the physical properties of a pigment prepared by the mild oxidation of dopa-melanin in alkaline soln. The distinctive colour of red hair is probably due to the presence in such hair of an oxidation product of melanin.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The tyrosinase-tyrosine reactionBiochemical Journal, 1930