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JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
Volume 25, Issue 6, Pages 980-983Publisher
KOREAN ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2010.25.6.980
Keywords
Ultraviolet Rays; Fatty Acids, Nonesterified; Fatty Acids, Omega-3; 11,14,17-eicosatrienoic acid; Phospholipases A(2), Calcium-Independent; Human Elongase 1
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- Ministry of Health & Welfare, the Republic of Korea [A060160]
- AMOREPACIFIC Corporation
- Korea Health Promotion Institute [A060160] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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We investigated the alterations of major fatty acid components in epidermis by natural aging and photoaging processes, and by acute ultraviolet (UV) irradiation in human skin. Interestingly, we found that 11,14,17-eicosatrienoic acid (ETA), which is one of the omega-3 polyunsaturated acids, was significantly increased in photoaged human epidermis in vivo and also in the acutely UV-irradiated human skin in vivo, while it was significantly decreased in intrinsically aged human epidermis. The increased ETA content in the epidermis of photoaged human skin and acute UV-irradiated human skin is associated with enhanced expression of human elongase 1 and calcium-independent phophodiesterase A(2). We demonstrated that ETA inhibited matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-1 expression after UV-irradiation, and that inhibition of ETA synthesis using EPTC and NA-TCA, which are elongase inhibitors, increased MMP-1 expression. Therefore, our results suggest that the UV increases the ETA levels, which may have a photoprotective effect in the human skin.
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