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JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 44-49Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/jidsymp.2009.1
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The exact pathogenesis of photoaging of the skin is not yet known. Earlier, a number of molecular path-ways explaining one or more characteristics of photoaged skin have been described, but a unifying mechanistic concept is still missing. Here we propose the Defective Powerhouse Model of Premature Skin Aging, which reconciles most of the earlier conducted research as one concept. In this model, the persistence of UV radiation-induced mtDNA deletions or the infrared radiation-induced disturbance of the electron flow of the mitochondrial electron transport chain leads to inadequate energy production in dermal fibroblasts. As a consequence of this defective powerhouse, retrograde mitochondrial signaling pathways are triggered that then they transduce functional and structural alterations in the skin. This model, which is supported by a growing number of recent studies, is of direct clinical importance in preventing and treating photoaging in human skin.
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