Acute exposure of human skin to ultraviolet or infrared radiation or heat stimuli increases mast cell numbers and tryptase expression in human skin in vivo

Increased expression of Fas on human epi

Increased expression of Fas on human epidermal cells after in vivo exposure to single-dose ultraviolet (UV) B or long-wave UVA radiation

✍ B. Bang; J. Rygaard; O. Baadsgaard; L. Skov 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 186 KB

## Background: Apoptosis has been proposed to act as an important mechanism for eliminating keratinocytes that have been irreversibly damaged by ultraviolet (uv) irradiation. one way to induce apoptosis in keratinocytes is through activation of the cell surface receptor fas (cd95), either with the