Cellular effects of UVA: DNA damages
Ultraviolet radiation between 320 nm and visible light (UVA) is a major component of both solar radiation and suntan lamps, which are being increasingly used in tanning booths. UVA has generally been considered innocuous, partially because DNA does not absorb appreciably in this region, but UVB radiation (290-320 nm) has widely been considered to be the major etiological factor in human skin carcinogenesis caused by solar uv radiation, largely because DNA absorbs photons of UVB, which is known to produce thymine photoproducts (cyclobutane dimers and adducts). It is true that patients with xeroderma pigmentosum are particularly prone to solar-uv-induced skin cancer, and cells derived from these people have been shown to lack ability to repair pyrimidine photoproducts by excision, evidence that pyrimidine photoproducts might play a role in carcinogenesis in certain specialized situations. Normal cells have the ability to repair these UVB-induced lesions. However, UVA is considerably more penetrating and more abundant than UVB, and others have performed a spectral analysis that claimed that 20-60% (depending upon the solar zenith angle) of the toxic biological effects of solar radiation can be attributed to UVA. The fact that UVA radiations are mutagenic provides motivation for studying DNA changes that might be effected by this region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 6289610
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8810345-1; ON: DE89009866
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 10. international congress on photobiology, Jerusalem, Israel, 30 Oct 1988; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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