eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal 0974-6242 2018-09-21 11 3 1199 1208 10.13005/bpj/1481 21824 article Tava Shelan Nagapan 1 Ahmad Rohi Ghazali 1 Dayang Fredalina Basri 1 Wenna Nallance Lim 1 Biomedical Science Programme, School of Diagnostic and Applied Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 50300 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) from sunlight is an environmental human carcinogen. Skin exposure to UVR would increase the oxidative stress, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage, melanogenesis and photocarcinogenesis. Therefore, development of photoprotective agent is necessary in order to reduce the cutaneous toxicity. The use natural active compounds like stilbenes and its derivatives have gained attention as photoprotection to skin due to its broad biological activities such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti melanogenesis and chemoprevention. This review article aims to analyse the existing literature on the photoprotective effect of stilbenes and its derivatives which include the resveratrol, pterostilbene, piceatannol and oxyresveratrol on in vitro and in vivo studies. This article describes the stilbenes and its derivatives protect and prevent UVR induced skin disorders via the reduction of oxidative stress, alleviation of DNA damage, inhibition of melanogenesis and anti photocarcinogenic effect. https://biomedpharmajournal.org/vol11no3/photoprotective-effect-of-stilbenes-and-its-derivatives-against-ultraviolet-radiation-induced-skin-disorders/ Chemoprevention DNA Damage Melanogenesis Oxidative Stress Stilbenes