Journal article
Protecting the Protectors: Reducing the Biological Toxicity of UV Sunscreens by Zeolite Encapsulation
Abstract
The phototoxic and photoallergic effects of the once popular UV sunscreen p-aminobanzoic acid are related, in part, to its ability to sensitize the formation of singlet oxygen as well as other reactive oxygen species. In this work we demonstrate that the sunscreen-photoinduced inactivation of a model protein, horseradish peroxidase, is reduced by approximately a factor of three when the sunscreen is encaspsulated in zeolite sodium Y. These …
Authors
Chrtien MN; Migahed L; Scaiano JC
Journal
Photochemistry and Photobiology, Vol. 82, No. 6, pp. 1606–1611
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
2006
DOI
10.1562/2006-07-11-ra-967
ISSN
0031-8655