Folia Biologica
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Charles University 

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Fol. Biol. 2003, 49, 197-202

https://doi.org/10.14712/fb2003049050197

UVC-Protective Effect of Caffeic Acid on Normal and Transformed Human Skin Cells in Vitro

Jakub Neradil1, R. Veselská1, J. Slanina2

1Cell Culture Laboratory, Department of Biology, Medical Faculty, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
2Department of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic

Received June 2003
Accepted August 2003

Possible UVC-protective properties of CA, a plant phenolic compound with antioxidant activity, were investigated on human KF1 diploid fibroblast and A431 epidermoid carcinoma cell lines. Cell populations, untreated and treated by antioxidants (CA and α-tocopherol), were irradiated by UVC at the wavelength of 254 nm and their proliferation activity was determined by the MTT assay. The results show a strong protective effect of CA at both concentrations used (55.5 and 166.5 µM): a significant increase of proliferation activity after UVC irradiation was detected in both cell populations growing in the presence of CA in comparison with cells in DMEM only. The described protective effect of CA was more obvious in transformed cells than in normal diploid cells. This protective ability is probably based on the antioxidant and scavenging activities of CA, which seems to be more efficient than α-tocopherol in protection against the cytotoxic effect caused by UVC irradiation.

Funding

This work was supported by the grant No. 1704 from the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic.

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