Assertion: melanin | /r/HasProperty | protective
Facets:
value: against amd development
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: against sun's damage
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The impact of melanin on skin cancer has long been debated, despite knowledge that melanin is protective against sun's damage, caused by visible and ultraviolet light impacts on the skin.
text: Related to the protection, the mechanism of action of phenol oxidases on phenols to form o-quinone intermediates and finally melanin is also protective as it is considered a primitive form of immunity .
text: AMD is at least an order of magnitude (48) more prevalent in the white population than in darkly pigmented races, suggesting that melanin may be protective against AMD development (49-52).