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. 1996 Jul;87(7):685–690. doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1996.tb00278.x

Detection of Ultraviolet Photoproducts in Mouse Skin Exposed to Natural Sunlight

Xiusheng Qin 1, Shaomin Zhang 1, Mirjana Zarkovic 1, Yoko Nakatsuru 1, Seiichiro Shimizu 1, Yukari Yamazaki 1, Hideaki Oda 1, Osamu Nikaido 2, Takatoshi Ishikawa 1,✉
PMCID: PMC5921152  PMID: 8698616

Abstract

In the present study, we for the first time investigated the formation of ultraviolet (UV) photoproducts, cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs), pyrimidine‐pyrimidone (6–4) photoproducts (64PPs) and Dewar isomers, in vivo in shaved and depilated C3H/HeN mouse skin exposed to natural sunlight (NSL) at noon for 5 min to 1 h in mid‐summer, using a highly sensitive immunohistochemical method. This method permits the quantitative analysis of UV‐photoproducts in formalin‐fixed, paraffin‐embedded sections with specific antibodies against CPDs, 64PPs and Dewar isomers. We demonstrated that the induction of CPDs in vivo in mouse skin by NSL was exposure time‐dependent, but the accumulation of 64PPs or Dewar isomers was comparatively low in the skin sections from mice exposed to NSL in vivo. The results indicate that CPDs are the main photoproducts in vivo induced by sunlight and that their formation and repair may be important in connection with carcinogenesis in sun‐exposed areas of human skin.

Keywords: Immunohistochemistry, UV‐photoproduct, Sunlight, Mouse skin

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