Fig. 1. GA helps HDFs in cell survival upon UV-B -irradiation. UV-B treatment to primary fibroblast cells at 10 mJ/cm² shows 16.54% cytotoxicity & at 20 mJ/cm² shows 30.72% cytotoxicity (Fig. 1A), (*p<0.05, **p<0.01 as compared to untreated). GA treatment to HDFs does not induce any cytotoxicity upto 50 μM (Fig. 1B). GA pre-treatment to HDFs significantly restores the cell viability in HDFs upto 60% at 25 μM and by 90% at 50 μM, (Fig.1C), (*p<0.05 as compared to UV-B treated). DAPI staining showed higher apoptotic nuclei in UV-B treated HDFs as compared to GA treated cells (Fig. 1D & 1E), (**p˂0.01 as compared to UV-B treated, *p˂0.05 as compared to GA treated).