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Solar-ultraviolet-induced damage to DNA
1Biological, Environmental, and Medical Research Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois.
Photo-Dermatology
|February 1, 1989
Abstract:
Literature on the biological (mutagenesis) and molecular (DNA lesions and their cellular processing) events resulting from exposure of cells to solar ultraviolet and visible radiations is discussed. The problems encountered with research in this area are presented. Our sparse understanding of the complex mixture of events caused in cells by solar radiation and the mechanisms subserving these events is outlined.