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FRED LEVIT, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1959;79(1):96-98.

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The ease with which hot water will extract fluorescent material from fluorescent hairs infected with Microsporum species¹ has led to efforts at chemical identification of the substance. Felsher² found it to behave as a fluorescent indicator substance. Robinson, Figge, and Bereston³ found it to be readily water-soluble and not soluble in most fat solvents. Their spectrographic analysis led them to believe the fluorescent material to be a small peptide-like molecule. Wolf,⁴ on the basis of spectrophotometric examinations, believes it to be a pteridine, although this has been questioned.⁵

Chattaway and Barlow⁶ were able to extract a fluorescent material from the hair of uninfected children, which gave a chromatogram different from that obtained from infected hair. Rebell, Mahvi, and Lamb⁷ were able to extract fluorescent materials from albino rat hair, which is normally fluorescent, but not from non-fluorescent hair of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Chicago

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Submitted for publication July 29, 1958.

Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Medical School (Herbert Rattner, M.D., Chairman); Toni-Gillette Fellow in Dermatology.

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