Background:Occupational hazards are consequences and risks associated with particular occupation. Farmers working in the fields at various like snake bite, injuries sustained from agricultural equipment, inhalation of pesticides, electrocution lightening injuries. In a thunderstorm rainy season,person an open area that too farm, is utmost risk getting electrocuted injury due to less insulation ...

due to the destruction of the ozone layer. Our skin is more exposed to UV radiation and often suffers from various harmful effects of UV. Melanin prodcution in human skin is an important defense mechanism against UV and a major determinant of skin color. Melanocytes residing within the basal layer of the epidermis synthesize melanin in specialized organelles, designated as melanosomes, by coord...

SYNOPSIS. McCord and Allen (1917) found that extracts of mammalian pineal glands contain a potent contracting agent of larval amphibian melanophores. Lerner and his co-workers determined the chemical structure of this principle and named it melatonin. This agent contracts dermal melanophores at a concentration as low as 10" g/ml. Both intact and eyeless larval amphibians blanch when placed in t...

Somali women often use creams and soaps to lighten skin tone, fade freckles or get rid of age spots. Use of these products raises a health concern, as some have been found to contain mercury. This article describes an investigation that involved interviewing Somali women about skin-lightening practices and the products they use and then testing those products for mercury. Twenty-seven samples o...

Utilization of gene silencing effectors, such as microRNA (miRNA) and small hairpin RNA (shRNA), provides a powerful new strategy for human skin care in vivo, particularly for hyperpigmentation treatment and aging prevention. In this study, tyrosinase (Tyr), the rate-limiting enzyme of melanin (black pigment) biosynthesis, was served as a target for treatment of hyperpigmentation in mouse and h...