Title : alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone protects from ultraviolet radiation-induced apoptosis and DNA damage.

Pub. Date : 2005 Feb 18

PMID : 15569680






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1 Apart from its ability to induce photoprotective melanin synthesis, alpha-MSH appears to exert the capacity to reduce UV radiation-induced DNA damage and, thus, may act as a potent protection factor against the harmful effects of UV radiation on the genomic stability of epidermal cells. Melanins proopiomelanocortin Homo sapiens