Traditional Japanese dye shows skin-protective effects

Professor Toshio Morikawa and Professor Koji Kakutani of the Pharmaceutical Research and Technology Institute, Kindai University as well as Doctoral Student Ryuya Takada (second year) in the Department of Pharmacy at the Graduate School of Pharmacy, in a joint study with the Japanese Madder Regeneration Organization, clarified that red pigment components contained in Rubia argyi (Japanese Akane),…