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UV light from the sun or tanning beds can irritate your skin and harm skin cells by changing how they work.

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The ribotoxic stress response drives acute inflammation, cell death, and epidermal thickening in UV-irradiated skin in vivo

Randomized Controlled Trial
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2024 Dec 19

The study shows that UV light causes skin cells to get stressed and inflamed, leading to cell damage and death, which supports the idea that UV light harms skin by changing how cells behave.

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Current insights and future perspectives of ultraviolet radiation (UV) exposure: Friends and foes to the skin and beyond the skin.

Narrative Review
2024 Mar

The study shows that UV light harms skin cells and causes inflammation, which is exactly what the claim says.

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