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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dermatol Clin. 2007 Oct;25(4):643–x. doi: 10.1016/j.det.2007.06.012

Figure 2. Catecholamine synthesis pathway in atopic dermatitis and vitiligo.

Figure 2

The solid arrows represent the normal pathway in the synthesis of norepinephrine and epinephrine from L-phenylalanine. The dashed arrows represent how this pathway is modulated in atopic dermatitis and vitiligo except that epidermal increases in the level COMT and MAO-A have only been shown for atopic dermatitis.