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