Visible light is a better co-inducer of apoptosis for curcumin-treated human melanoma cells than UVA.

Curcumin attracts worldwide scientific interest due to its anti-proliferative and apoptosis inducing effects on different tumor cells at concentrations ranging from 10 to 150 µM (3.7-55 µg/ml). Unfortunately, because of a low oral bioavailability, only low and pharmacologically ineffective serum lev...

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Main Authors: Stephan Buss, Jadranka Dobra, Kerstin Goerg, Stephanie Hoffmann, Stefan Kippenberger, Roland Kaufmann, Matthias Hofmann, August Bernd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3821844?pdf=render