Protective and therapeutic effects of fucoxanthin against sunburn caused by UV irradiation

• Main Authors: Mio Matsui (Author), Kosuke Tanaka (Author), Naoki Higashiguchi (Author), Hisato Okawa (Author), Yoichi Yamada (Author), Ken Tanaka (Author), Soichiro Taira (Author), Tomoko Aoyama (Author), Misaki Takanishi (Author), Chika Natsume (Author), Yuuki Takakura (Author), Norihisa Fujita (Author), Takeshi Hashimoto (Author), Takashi Fujita (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mild exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation is also harmful and hazardous to the skin and often causes a photosensitivity disorder accompanied by sunburn. To understand the action of UV on the skin we performed a microarray analysis to isolate UV-sensitive genes. We show here that UV irradiation pro...