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Alena, F. et al.

Glutathione plays a key role in the depigmenting and melanocytotoxic action of N-acetyl-4-S-cysteaminylphenol in black and yellow hair follicles.

This study examined the effect of glutathione on the in vivo depigmenting potency of N-acetyl-4-S-cysteaminylphenol (N-acetyl-4-S-CAP) in black and yellow mice after multiple intraperitoneal injections on 10 consecutive days. In black mice (C57BL/6J, a/a), N-acetyl-4-S-CAP showed dose-dependent depigmenting potency (0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 mmol/kg), which was in parallel to the tissue eumelanin content (98%, 28%, and 3% of controls, respectively) and to the tissue glutathione content (94%, 85%, and 76%, respectively). In lethal yellow mice (C57BL/6J, Ay/a), only a dose of 2.0 mmol/kg showed the color change of hair to dark, not to white as seen in black mice. This was reflected by the decrease of pheomelanin content (56%) and the increase of eumelanin content (28% of black mice). The simultaneous administration of N-acetyl-cysteine, which up-regulated glutathione content, completely abolished the depigmenting potency of N-acetyl-4-S-CAP, whereas administration of buthionine sulfoximine, which depleted the tissue glutathione content, enhanced the depigmenting potency of N-acetyl-4-S-CAP in black hair. In yellow mice, the darkening of hair follicles by 2.0 mmol/kg of N-acetyl-4-S-CAP was completely abolished by the combined administration of N-acetyl-cysteine, with the resulting hair color the same as in controls, whereas combined administration with buthionine sulfoximine caused some whitening of yellow hair follicles. Our data indicate that the tissue content of glutathione regulates melanocytotoxicity and depigmenting potency of N-acetyl-4-S-CAP and that this alteration of glutathione content may switch the melanogenesis type from pheomelanin to eumelanin.[1]

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Glutathione plays a key role in the depigmenting and melanocytotoxic action of N-acetyl-4-S-cysteaminylphenol in black and yellow hair follicles. Alena, F., Dixon, W., Thomas, P., Jimbow, K. J. Invest. Dermatol. (1995) [Pubmed]

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