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Study shows vitamin may reduce skin damage
9- 7
By Asima Rafeeq
Daily Staff Reporter
Light-skinned sun-lovers and baby boomers worried
about wrinkles may be happy to learn University
researchers have uncovered another potential weapon
against skin damage caused by the sun.
'We've identified a new way sun harms skin, which
urses the possibility of protecting against this," said
Gary Fisher, a researcher in the Medical School's depart-
ment of dermatology.
Fisher, along with a team of four University
researchers, led the study on skin damage, which was
published in the April issue of the Nature Medicine jour-
nal.
Scientists found that treating subjects with a form of
Vitamin A known as retinoic acid before exposure to
ultraviolet light significantly reduced skin damage.
The study's findings could eventually be used to bene-
f eople prone to skin cancer, the most common form of
cacer in the world, afflicting more than 600,000 white
people in the United States every year.
This is not the first time retinoic acid was found to
hold benefits for damaged skin. Other forms of retinoic
"It might be that use (of retinoic acid) on a daily basis
could prevent the problem from developing at all"
- John Voorhees
Dermatology researcher
acid include retin-A for acne treatment and renova for
wrinkle treatment, both approved by the Food and Drug
Administration
University researchers also led the 1988 study finding that
retinoic acid could reduce wrinkles.
Ultraviolet light from the sun can cause damage to the
skin's immune system, said dermatology researcher and
Medical Prof. John Voorhees.
But the effect of ultraviolet light on the system of
retinoic acid receptors was unknown until this study, he
explained.
"One day we just said, 'Gee, maybe the retinoid system is
fouled up by UV light,' and sure enough it was," Voorhees
said.
Upon exposure to the sun, there is a dramatic increase
in a protein called Activator Protein No. 1, known to
cause tumor production as well as premature aging of the
skin.
Normally, AP-1 levels are kept in check by two types of
receptors in the skin - retinoic acid receptors and retinoid
X receptors. But exposure to ultraviolet light dramatically
reduces the number of these receptors "down to a handful,"
Voorhees said.
When researchers pre-treated about 70 subjects with
retinoic acid, however, the decline in RAR and RXR recep-
tors was followed by a complete restoration in about 16
hours.
"It might be that use (of retinoic acid) on a daily basis
could prevent the problem from developing at all," Voorhees
said.
But he added that a long-term clinical study of the effects
of retinoic acid is necessary before researchers actually rec-
ommend pre-treatment of retinoic acid.
"Now, the molecular description is there providing solid
rationale for a clinical study," Voorhees said.
Although currently-available sunscreens already block
damage to the retinoid system, the study's findings
could have implications for the sunscreen industry,
Fisher said.
"A product with (vitamin A) or retinoic acid would provide
potentially enhanced benefits," he said.
LSA senior Craig Cucinella, president of University
Students Against Cancer, said he thought the development in
skin cancer prevention was encouraging.
But he added that the benefits would only be useful if
people realize the importance of skin protection.
"Many people don't bother to even put sunscreen on,'
Cucinella said. "The main concern is getting people to real-
ize there is a problem."
MOSHER
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former University Medical School
graduate, the position of dean in
5.
ut like the others who had been
offered the job, Mosher wanted to
have a professorship, Bordin said.
Mosher previously had been
working as a physician at a women's
prison in Boston and been a part of
a private practice in Brooklyn.
Despite the fact that Mosher would
not be a practicing physician at the
University, she would be given the
4 portunity to lecture on proper
ene for women.
Mosher accepted the position in
1896 and became the first dean of
women with a professorship in the
literature department.
gut "she was unhappy here,"
Nidiffer said, explaining that
Mosher didn't like having to correct
student's behavior..
Women's hygiene and health was
an important issue at that time
because it was believed that going to
college would ruin women's health,
Nidiffer said.
People used to believe there was a
limited supply of blood in the
human body and if all the blood
went to their heads - as it would
while receiving an education - not
enough blood would be left for a
woman's uterus, making her sterile,
Nidiffer said.
She added that it was also
believed a college education "would'
make women uninterested in being
wives."
Despite her dissatisfaction with her
work, Mosher worked hard during her
six years at the University, organizing
a three-year gym program for female
students and conducting physical
examinations for the women, Bordin
wrote.
Mosher also became a forerunner
of classes in public health and social
work by creating a three-year pro-
gram in the field.
SPEAKER
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of robbing her of her identity ... I want-
ed to portray her as a gifted writer but
also as a normal girl."
In order to do this, Muller heard the
stories of those who knew Frank,
including Konig, who also spoke at last
night's event.
Although she described her life as a
child, Konig's speech focused on the
aftermath of surviving "the most hor-
rendous, outrageous organized event
against the Jewish people."
Konig said she met Frank at
school, which was segregated for
Jewish students. She saw her again
at the Bergen-Belsen concentration
camp, "where she hardly recognized
her at first because she looked like
skeleton."
Konig described the "unanticipated
psychological consequences'$ she has
had to face. She cited the "Why me?
syndrome" as well as a dreadful feel-
ing of guilt as the only survivor in her
family.
"The great demoralization I had to
face will stay with me forever," Konig
said. Konig also discussed the affect
the Holocaust had on her children and
grandchildren. Her speech last night
was largely due to the efforts of her
granddaughter Helene Kahn, an LSA
junior.
Kahn, who co-chaired the conference
on the Holocaust, described her grand-
mother as "the most courageous person
I know.
"I'm incredibly proud that she's
doing this for us," Kahn said.
The speakers said they agreed
with the conference's theme,
"Remembering the Holocaust in the
21st Century."
"However difficult, it is the role of
the speaker to speak, to alert that the
Holocaust was really much worse than
people can imagine," Konig said.
Muller commented that "History is
not the past; it is part of an ongoing
event, and must be part of the children's.
history in the right way."
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Panel explores
globalization,
the en vironment
By Nika Schulte
Daily Staff Reporter
Leaning intently over their note-
.books, more than 120 students, faculty
and community members jotted down
notes yesterday at Hale Auditorium as
they listened to a panel of speakers dis-
cuss the compatibility of the environ-
ment and globalization.
The symposium, presented by the
University's one-year-old chapter of the
International Society of Tropical
Foresters, facilitated discussion among
an international panel with differing
opinions about the issue.
David Kaimowitz, a scientist for the
Center for International Forestry
Research, informed the crowd that
while there are many negative conse-
quences of globalization, a positive side
also exists.
"I won't say that economic globaliza-
tion won't lead to economic growth,"
Kaimowitz said. "But people that think
this is an automatic process should
come visit me in Indonesia," he said,
adding that there have been strong
global economic policies for more than
20 years.
But Odin Knudsen, a senior adviser
for the World Bank, expressed that the
outlook may not be so grim and
progress may not be slow. Knudsen
assured the crowd that in the near future
they would witness rapid reforestation
and preservation of the "crown jewels"
of the forest.
Knudsen encouraged the students to
be part of those goals.
"You are part of the way we get
there" Knudsen said, commending the
students for their activism, studying
and commitment while encouraging
them to continue on the same path.
Heather Northway, a SNRE second-
year graduate student, said she enjoyed
Knudsen's presentation because she
was not familiar with his organization's
approach to globalization and the envi-
ronment.
"It is interesting to hear from the
World Bank since I tend to have a pes-
simistic view of it," Northway said.
"This gave me more to think about con-
cerning financial institutions"
Some students said the information
provided during the symposium will be
useful in their studies.
"This is of great interest to me,"
said Dan Griffith, who said he was
able to apply yesterday's symposium
topics to the field work he is doing in
Nicaragua.
Griffith, a Rackham third-year
student, said he was excited to see
such a distinguished group of pan-
elists.
Symposium coordinator Darci
Andresen said she was pleased with
the event and was excited to see the
enthusiastic response to the discus
sion following the panelists' presenta-
tions.
"The main thing we wanted was to
get people to ask the questions they
have' Andresen said.
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