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- Title
The monoene fatty acids of human surface lipids and their relation to skin melanogenesis.
- Authors
Nazzaro Porro, M.; Passi, S.; Balus, L.
- Abstract
The article focuses on monoene fatty acids of human surface lipids and their relation to skin melanogenesis. The position of double bonds of mono-unsaturated fatty acids of human skin surface lipids was determined by the high resolving gas chromatography-mass spectrometry system. These results could suggest that the hypopigmentation in pityriasis versicolor may be due to tyrosinase inhibition by products formed through the oxidation, by a pityrosporum enzyme system, of the double bond linkages at 9, 11, and probably the 8 and 10 positions of the unsaturated fatty acids normally present in skin surface lipids.
- Subjects
FATTY acids; LIPIDS; STEROIDS; UNSATURATED fatty acids; GAS chromatography; PITYRIASIS rosea
- Publication
British Journal of Dermatology, 1977, Vol 97, Issue 6, p16
- ISSN
0007-0963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2133.1977.tb14298.x