Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY
Volume 63, Issue 10, Pages 1417-1423Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-019-01759-1
Keywords
Medicinal (thermal) waters; Comet assay; UV photo-protection
Funding
- University of PA(C)cs (PTE)
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Pecs [PTE-AOK-KA-2013/34039]
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Balneotherapy has been used to treat several diseases including locomotor, neurological and dermatological conditions. The basis of the organic hypothesis of medical balneology is that medicinal waters, especially thermal spa and hot spring waters, contain a high variability of organic components with possible biological effects, including UV photo-protection. The recent study aims to clarify this effect in a human keratinocyte cell line model. Results confirm that organic-rich extract of selected medicinal waters might protect skin-derived cells from DNA damage. These results give a clinical relevance to medicinal waters or pharmaceutical products prepared from them in preventing the adverse effects of solar or artificial UV radiation on the human skin.
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