Photoprotection science

Wondrak, G. T. Jacobson, M. K. Jacobson, E. L. (2006). Endogenous UVA photosensitizers mediators of skin photodamage and novel targets for skin photoprotection. Photochemical Photohiological Sciences, Vol.5, (nd), (August 2005), pp. 215 - 237, ISSN 1474-905X. 

Smirnoff N (2000) Ascorbate biosynthesis and function in photoprotection. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences 355,1455-64. 

Marine algae hold immense potential to be utilized as photoprotective elements. Proper utilization of this resource would pave a pay for future detonation in the cosmeceutics and medicinal food market. Advanced biotechnological approaches need to be implied to ocean sciences to explore the vast prospective of these photoprotective agents. Strategies need to be formulated for the appropriate usage of the marine algal photoprotective compounds as an answer to the photodamage caused by UVA/UVB or even the xenobiotics. 

Borle, F., R. Sieber, J.O. Bosset, Photo-oxidation and photoprotection of foods, with particular reference to dairy products an update of a review article (1993-2000), Sciences des Aliments, 21(6), p. 571, 2002. 

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