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The role of UVA rays in skin aging Volume 11, numéro 2, March - April 2001

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Department of Dermatology, Heinrich Heine, University Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Page(s) : 170-1
  • Année de parution : 2001

Chronic sun exposure causes photoaging of human skin, a process that is characterized by clinical, histological and biochemical changes which differ from alterations in chronologically aged but sun-protected skin. Within recent years substantial progress has been made in unraveling the underlying mechanisms of photoaging [1]. A question of great importance has been: Which parts of the sunlight cause which feature of photoaging? Ultraviolet [...]