Isolation, characterization and assessment of the photoprotective effect of two fungal melanins
Melanins are a diverse group of pigmented biopolymers present in living organisms at all phylogenetic levels. Properties such as light scattering and absorption through a wide range of wavelengths, and scavenging of free radicals are common to all melanins, and render them as molecules having the ca...
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University of British Columbia
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43603 |