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Prevention and Treatment of Skin Aging
Author(s) -
McCULLOUGH JERRY L.,
KELLY KRISTEN M.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1354.044
Subject(s) - skin aging , psychosocial , population ageing , medicine , accelerated aging , cellular aging , population , gerontology , neuroscience , psychology , biology , environmental health , psychiatry , chemistry , dermatology , genetics , dna , telomere
Skin aging is a complex biological process that is a consequence of both intrinsic or genetically programmed aging that occurs with time, and extrinsic aging caused by environmental factors. The dramatic increase in the aging population and the psychosocial impact of skin aging has created a demand for effective interventions. The advances that have been made in the past 25 years in our understanding of the clinical, biochemical, and molecular changes associated with aging have led to the development of many different approaches to reduce, postpone, and in some cases, repair the untoward effects of intrinsic programmed aging and extrinsic environmental injury.