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Red Flags: Danger! Severe sunburn in season

...of the body's defense mechanism, the skin pigment called melanin. Shorter-wavelength UVB rays are the main culprits for the......burns.Although melanin does yield some protection, exposure to UV rays eventually causes...
4/1/2013 | Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

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Anatomical and Physiological Basis for Corneotrophic Care of the Skin

...epidermal cells are melanocytes, which produce and store the pigment melanin. Melanin is a brown-black pigment that contributes to skin color...
9/16/2009 | Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing


4.  
Malignant Melanoma

...the skin are pigment-synthesizing cells called melanocytes, which produce melanin. Two major forms of melanin are eumelanin and pheomelanin. Eumelanin, most abundant in humans, is...
4/29/2013 | Plastic Surgical Nursing - Featured Journal

5.  
Detection of Skin Erythema in Darkly Pigmented Skin Using Multispectral Images

...interest when detecting erythema are oxyhemoglobin (oxyHb), deoxyhemoglobin (Hb), and melanin. Hb and oxyHb absorb light in the same spectral range......Figure 1). The absorption of melanin decreases over the spectral range from 400 to 1100 nm...
4/7/2009 | Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing

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Assessing skin color changes

...this condition, which may be hereditary, melanocytes (cells that produce melanin) die or stop forming melanin. Depigmented patches of milky-white skin appear in various regions...
7/25/2011 | Nursing2013

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Research Highlights: A Review of Sun Products and Exposures

...skin, attributed to an increase in protective pigmentation known as melanin. An association that remains questioned is whether there is a......2008). UVB was shown to elicit a dramatic increase in melanin synthesis, whereas UVA increased visible tanning of the skin without...
2/10/2012 | Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association

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ABSTRACTS: Triple Combination Cream and Glycolic Acid Peels for the Treatment of Moderate to Severe Melasma

...made at Weeks 6 and 12. Objective mexameter readings for melanin were used to determine the improvement in hyperpigmentation.......p < 001). Objective mexameter measurements of melanin confirmed that hyperpigmentation was significantly reduced in patients at Week...
5/5/2009 | Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association

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Editor's Memo: Let the evidence determine Vitamin D deficiency

...versus darkness), cloud cover and smog (filters UV rays), skin melanin content (increased melanin in darker skin reduces the skin's ability to produce...
7/25/2011 | The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care

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NEWS Breaks

...look at vitamin D levels in African Americans with MS. Melanin, which determines the level of pigment in the skin, acts...
8/5/2011 | Nutrition Today

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