Women and wrinkles: report difficult estate. For the fair sex – though in truth the men are becoming too attentissimi the physical details – the good news coming from the U.S. go-ahead to treatments that regenerate collagen. This is the conclusion reached by the researchers of the Department of Dermatology and Pathology of the University of Michigan after spending reviewed dozens of studies.
The treatments, therefore, are effective against ‘aging that is due, the skin in particular, for an enzyme – called collagens – which degrades the protein of youth, collagen. Located in the dermis, this protein supports the ‘skin surface. Immersed in the matrix of collagen are the fibroblasts, namely the cells that produce the protein is the enzyme that degrades. These cells are not able to repair the fragmented collagen fact, over time and with exposure to the sun, combine to make the situation much worse. Age shall be a vicious circle in which the fibroblasts, no longer supported by a matrix intact, collapse and decrease the production of collagen while at the same time that of ‘enzyme collagens.
According to the researchers, some treatment rejuvenates the skin, because it stimulates the production of new collagen intact, which in turn allows the fibroblasts to relax and start to produce the protein enzymes instead. Among the treatments, applications at the local level of retinoic acid – a form of vitamin A – laser resurfacing treat carbon dioxide and intradermal injections of hyaluronic acid: the effect is real and aging shows really slowed.