melanin
IPA: mˈɛɫʌnʌn
noun
- (biochemistry) Any of a group of naturally occurring dark pigments, especially the pigment found in skin, hair, fur, and feathers.
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Examples of "melanin" in Sentences
- Melanin is melanin in skin color.
- Melanin is a stable free radical.
- He thought the pigment was melanin.
- It has to do with melanin and addiction.
- Being black is not a 'melanin imbalance'.
- Norepinephrine also is associated with melanin.
- But it also describes melanin as a polyacetylene.
- Tyrosine is also the precursor to the pigment melanin.
- It causes sunburn and it triggers the production of melanin.
- The chemical substance melanin is the pigment which darkens skin color.
- The presence of melanin in feathers increases their resistance to abrasion.
- What determines how much melanin is present in the iris ishereditary genetics.
- The melanin is eventually discharged from melanocytes and taken up by keratinocytes.
- This Great Moment in Black History has been sponsored by the same old ignoramuses who still think melanin is destiny.
- Dark skin races are largely protected by pigment, known as melanin, which largely blocks long-wave ultraviolet radiation.
- If you change a gene involved in melanin synthesis only expressed in the hair, you can change the hair color with no fuss.
- The material being targeted by the laser beam is called melanin, which is a pigment found in the skin, and which gives skin and hair its color.
- The scientists found that a peptide active in the hypothalamus called melanin-concentrating hormone or MCH can inactivate the reproductive system in times of hunger.
- The color of a person’s eyes depends on the amount of a pigment called melanin present in the iris of the eye (melanin is also responsible for the coloring of our skin).
- Though melanin is typically associated with ‘protective’ properties – absorbing and safely transforming different electromagnetic wavelengths, such as DNA-damaging ultraviolet light – the researchers had an inkling that a more extraordinary phenomenon was allowing the fungi to prosper; something still involving the combination of melanin and radiation, but beyond the bounds of radioactive protection.
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