<i>Psoralea corylifolia</i> (babchi) seeds enhance proliferation of normal human cultured melanocytes: GC–MS profiling and biological investigation

Abstract Plants are considered as a source of medicine to treat skin-related disorders since decades. Seeds Psoralea corylifolia were used thousands years ago for re-pigmentation in vitiligo patients especially South Asia. It is well-known fact that melanocytes, which the specialized cells skin causes through series chemical and enzymatic reactions, mainly due copper containing enzyme tyrosinase. Conditions associated with overproduction melanin termed hyperpigmentation. The treatment options generally limited complicated slow pathogenesis disease. Therefore, therapeutic repigmentation modalities highly desirable. aim this study was investigate effects various doses ethanol water extracts P. seeds on proliferation normal human cultured melanocytes its gas chromatography–mass spectrometry profiling.