Abstract
Abstract— Clinical and histological precancerous responses to UV irradiation are complicated dynamic functions of total dose, dose fractionation, fluence rate, and spectral distribution. This may be due, in large part, to the ability of UV to decrease epidermal‐stratum corneum transmission by stimulation of hyperplasia. This work provides quantitative measurement of dose‐ and wavelength‐dependent optical changes inSK–1 hairless mouse epidermis‐stratum corneum occurring under irradiation with “monochromatic” UV wavebands, at 280, 290, 300, 307, and 313 nm. Mice were irradiated 5 days per week with a filtered Xenon‐Hg high‐intensity grating monochromator, starting with 0.9 minimal erythemal dose (MED), followed by incremental increases in the radiation dose by 20% of the original dose every tenth irradiation day, for2–8 consecutive weeks. Subsequent irradiations (for longer experiments) were followed by 30% incremental increases after the 8th week every 10th irradiation day until cessation of radiation at the end of 14 weeks. Irradiated and control full‐thickness epidermis/ stratum corneum were examined histologically and by forward‐scattering absorption spectroscopy. Chronic irradiation of hairless mice resulted in significant hyperplasia which was optically manifested by a general increase in forward‐scattering absorbance. At moderate local doses (7.2 MED), the absorbance increase per MED was approximately the same for all excitation wavelengths, whereas at large total doses (≅ 100 MED) the optical increase per delivered MED progressively decreased in the order 313> 307> 300≅ 290> 280 nm. The increase in skin thickening, expressed as observed increase in absorption at 320 nm, correlated well with histological and clinical data. We propose that optical changes induced by UV‐induced thickening can account in large part, if not entirely, for dynamic changes in action spectra for (pre) cancerous processes under chronic irradiation conditions.
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