STUDIES IN CUTANEOUS AGING .1. THE ELASTIC FIBER NETWORK
STUDIES IN CUTANEOUS AGING .1. THE ELASTIC FIBER NETWORK
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DOI:
10.1111/1523-1747.ep12507866
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
6.5
通讯作者:
FONFERKO, E
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作者:
BRAVERMAN, IM;FONFERKO, E
The elastic fibers in the sun exposed and sun protected skin of normal and psoriatic individuals of different ages was studied by light microscopy and EM to separate the changes of actinic damage from those of chronological aging. The sun exposed skin showed 2 types of elastic fiber abnormalities.sbd.one related to actinic damage and the other to chronological aging. The sun protected buttock skin showed only the latter. From ages 30-70 yr, a minority of the elastic fibers exhibited abnormalities that appeared to represent a process of fiber disintegration. After age 70 yr, the majority of elastic fibers showed these abnormalities. These abnormalities were present without accompanying inflammatory cells. Also, there was morphological evidence of continuing synthesis of elastic fibers during the lifetime of these subjects, except that from ages 50-93 yr, the fibers appeared to be loosely, rather than compactly, assembled. Incubation of dermal slices from buttock skin of young adults with porcine pancreatic elastase and bovine chymotrypsin produced elastic fiber degradation that closely simulated the changes that were observed in aged sun protected skin. One of the features of cutaneous aging is a slow, spontaneous, progressive degradative process inherent in the elastic fiber that can be enzymatically accelerated from decades to hours by elastase and chymotrypsin.