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Abstract
The reaction of skin with dihydroxyacetone to produce a brown "artificial tan" appears to proceed through combination with free amino groups in skin proteins, and particularly by combination of dihydroxyacetone with the free guanido group in arginine.Entities:
Keywords: ACETONE/related compounds; SKIN/pharmacology
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Year: 1960 PMID: 13845496 DOI: 10.1126/science.132.3431.894
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728