Role of urocanic acid as an endogenous photoprotectant and as a therapeutic target for treating UV-induced melanoma and non-melanoma malignancies

Overexposure to UV (ultraviolet) radiation has been linked to a number of deleterious effects on human health, particularly epidermal malignancies, which consist of both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. In the 1950’s, an epidermal compound kno...

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Main Author: Wei, Grace
Other Authors: Gerstenfeld, Louis
Language:en_US
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/36718