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EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages 655-661Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0625.2003.00033.x
Keywords
aging; live animal skin; UVA exposure; reactive oxygen species; chemiluminescent detection
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Aging proceeds by highly complicated biochemical processes, in which the involvement of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) and free radicals has been implicated. Although the relationship between UV-induced photoaging and ROS generation has been proposed, it has been difficult to establish direct proof of the generation of ROS in the skin under UV exposure. Recently, we reported finding endogenously generated ROS in the skin of live mice after UVA light exposure by a method of in vivo chemiluminescent detection, in which superoxide anion radical (.O-2) and singlet oxygen species (O-1(2)) are contributed. In light of the results, we tried to understand the age-dependent changes in ROS generation in the skin of hairless rats under UVA exposure. Chemiluminescent levels due to ROS in the untreated and UVA-exposed skin decreased age dependently, and the signal intensities in old rats were significantly lower than those in young rats. However, the ratios of chemiluminescent intensities in the UVA-exposed skin to those in the untreated skin were significantly enhanced in an age-dependent manner. These results suggest that the antioxidative ability against ROS generation in the skin, possessed by antioxidant enzymes and low molecular weight antioxidants, is lowered age dependently.
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