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Effects on the eyes.
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Humans have three major organ
systems whose cells and tissues are commonly exposed to sunlight:
the eye, the immune system and the skin, and it is in these three
systems that the effects of sunlight on health have been documented.
The cells/tissues exposed in the eye are principally those associated
with the cornea; the iris and the lens, those of the skin include
the outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum, and the epidermis;
and those of the immune system are the Langerhans cells that reside
in, or migrate through the epidermis. |
