Madhukar A. Pathak's research while affiliated with Harvard Medical School and other places

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The therapeutic uses of naturally occurring psoralens in modern-day medicine (8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP), 5-methoxypsoralen (5-MOP), 4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen, and a few other synthetic psoralens) have evolved through five stages of development. (1) In the historical period (2000 BC to 1930 AD), the pigment-stimulating properties of naturally occurri...

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... Phototherapy using furocoumarins, such as psoralen (linear furocoumarin) and angelicins and allosporalens (angular fuorocoumarins) (Fig. 1), have been extensively known and utilized (Pathak and Fitzpatrick 1992;Melough et al. 2018). The phototherapeutic activity of these compounds arises mainly from their ability to form adducts with the pyrimidine bases of DNA (Seret et al. 1992). ...