Selected Articles
1) Relevance of reactive oxygen species in the induction of 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine in HaCaT keratinocytes.
Riemschneider, S., et al. Acta Derm Venereol. (2002). 82(5) 325-8.
This paper is a good review of various mechanisms for producing oxidative DNA Damage.
In the absense of iron, H2O2 is a poor oxidising agent for DNA.
UV light is a more consistent means of producing oxidative DNA Damage.
2) UV-mediated DNA damage and its assessment
Cooke,M., Podmore, I., Herbert, K., Lunec, J. and Thomas, S. (1996).
Toxicology and Environmental Toxicology News 3(4) 101-109.
- A review of oxidative DNA damage and its detection by a fluorescently labelled protein binding technique.