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Individual characteristic of the human being, which can have a wide range of different colour shades from translucent white to brown and deepest black. Responsible for the physiological skin colour are essentially 4 chromophores:
- Oxyhemoglobin (light red)
- reduced hemoglobin (blue)
- Carotenoids (yellow)
- Different types of melanin:
- Brown/blackish (eumelanin)
- Light yellowish (pheomelanin, black to reddish brown)
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer