Photochemical and photobiological properties of furocoumarins and homologues drugs
Furocoumarins are natural photosensitizing drugs used in PUVA photochemotherapy and in photopheresis. Their therapeutic effectiveness is connected to the lesions they induce to various cell components, membranes, ribosomes, mitochondria, and in particular to DNA, damaged by formation of monofunction...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
1999-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Photoenergy |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1110662X9900001X |