Neuromelanin   (translated from German)
Neuromelanin The black-brownish Pigment Neuromelanin one finds in the human Brain , as ... Primaten , Carnivores , Pferden und einigen Amphibienarten . Das Neuromelanin entsteht durch die Oxidation von Dopamin und ...
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Talk:Melanin
... metabolism produces a form of melanin called "neuromelanin," which is different from eumelanin, pheomelanin, et cetera, but still certainly a melanin. Neuromelanin gradually accumulates in the neurons of the ... get Parkinson's they start losing their neuromelanin, and their SN goes pale. The fairly ... it for granted that the loss of neuromelanin is basically a side-effect of dopamine ... is turning up more immediate connections between neuromelanin and Parkinson's than had been ...
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Melanin
... in particularly large quantities in red hair. Neuromelanin is a byproduct of dopamine metabolism, and ... brain. Its role, if any, is uncertain. Neuromelanin is not present in the brains of ... functioning, have been shown to have decreased neuromelanin in the substantia nigra as consequence of ... correlation between race and the level of neuromelanin in the substantia nigra has been observed ... melanin might somehow serve to protect the neuromelanin in substantia nigra from external toxins."[ ...
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Melanin (Psychology wiki)
... in particularly large quantities in red hair. Neuromelanin is a byproduct of dopamine metabolism, and ... brain. Its role, if any, is uncertain. Neuromelanin is not present in the brains of ... functioning, have been shown to have decreased neuromelanin in the substantia nigra as consequence of ... correlation between race and the level of neuromelanin in the substantia nigra has been observed ... melanin might somehow serve to protect the neuromelanin in substantia nigra from external toxins."[ ...
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Locus ceruleus
... heavily pigmented nucleus on the pons". The neuromelanin is formed by the polymerization of norepinephrine ... is analogous to the black dopamine-based neuromelanin in the substantia nigra. The locus ceruleus ...
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Nerve cell   (translated from German)
... of Pigment observed. That is particularly remarkable Neuromelanin in that Substantia nigra and that Locus ...
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Talk:Black supremacy/Archive 1
... melanin theorists continuously imply that melatonin or neuromelanin are responsible for skin color. Second, many ...
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Black supremacy
... called "soul". They also claim that, because neuromelanin, which is found in the substantia nigra ...
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Parkinson's disease
... compacta. This depigmentation corresponds to loss of neuromelanin-containing, dopamine-producing neurons. In the past ...
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Substantia nigra
... humans, are coloured black by the pigment neuromelanin. This pigmentation is visible as a distinctive ...
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