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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS AND BIOPHARMACEUTICS
Volume 69, Issue 3, Pages 943-947Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2008.01.034
Keywords
roughness; furrows; wrinkles; lycopene; free radicals; skin ageing
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- Donor Association for German Science and Humanities
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Antioxidant substances in the skin are expected to slow down photo ageing. We therefore developed the hypothesis that high levels of antioxidant substances may be correlated to lower levels of skin roughness. By utilizing modern optical non-invasive in vivo methods, the structures of the furrows and wrinkles as well as the concentration of lycopene were analyzed quantitatively oil the forehead skin of 20 Volunteers aged between 40 and 50 years. In it first step, the age of the Volunteers was correlated to their skin roughness. Here, no significant correlation was found. In a second step, a significant correlation was obtained between the skin roughness and the lycopene concentration (R = 0.843). These findings indicate that higher levels of antioxidants in the skin effectively lead to lower levels of skin roughness, and therefore support Our hypothesis. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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