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We investigated the action spectra for the induction of apoptosis and reproductive cell death in mouse lymphoma L5178Y cells using a high-performance spectroirradiator, the Okazaki Large Spectrograph at the National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki. L5178Y cells were exposed to monochromatic light at different wavelengths in the UV-B and UV-A regions. The frequencies of apoptosis induction and reproductive cell death were determined by counting cells with chromatin condensation and by a semi-solidified agarose colony formation assay, respectively. The measured action spectra for the two end-points were similar. The sensitivity decreased steeply with an increase of wavelength in the UV-B region, but showed no further decrement in the UV-A region. The action spectra were slightly steeper than that for the minimum erythematic dose (MED), and were similar to the light-absorption spectrum of DNA in the UV-B region. On the other hand, in the UV-A region, the spectra for both endpoints were close to the MED, but not to DNA absorption spectra. The difference between the measured spectra and that for MED may have been caused by the absorption of the light by the skin. Differences in the time course and morphological difference of apoptosis were found between the UV-B and UV-A region. These results suggest that although DNA damage induced by UV-B light can trigger apoptosis, or lead to reproductive cell death, other damage (membrane, protein and so on) may trigger those effects in the UV-A region.
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Aoki, M., Furusawa, Y., Higashi, Si. et al. Action spectra of apoptosis induction and reproductive cell death in L5178Y cells in the UV-B region. Photochem Photobiol Sci 3, 268–272 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1039/b313350h
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