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melanin

Brown pigment that gives colour to the eyes, skin, hair, feathers, and scales of many vertebrates. In humans, melanin helps protect the skin against ultraviolet radiation from sunlight. Both genetic and environmental factors determine the amount of melanin in the skin.
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Granular material, often containing discrete electron-dense central areas, was present, most likely representing neuromelanin (Figure 3, A).
Pigmented Papillary Epithelial Neoplasm of the Pituitary Fossa by Fuller, Christine E.; Smith, Mark; Miller, Douglas C.; Schelper, Robert / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Apparently confusing melanin, a pigment that darkens the skin, Jacoby points out, with neuromelanin, a brain chemical, they teach that it makes blacks generally superior to whites.
Race Policy in Three American Cities by GRAGLIA, LINO A. / Independent Review
The proposed neuromelanin connection,while not endorsed by all MPTP researchers, is supported by the new data.
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