Prolonged increase of cis-urocanic acid levels in human skin and urine after single total-body ultraviolet exposures

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 593-598

  Kammeyer, Arthur ^a   Pavel, Stanislav ^a,b   Asghar, Syed S ^a   Bos, Jan D ^a   Teunissen, Marcel B M ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0031104730     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb08611.x     Document Type: Article

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