Free Radicals and Extrinsic Skin Aging

Human skin is constantly directly exposed to the air, solar radiation, environmental pollutants, or other mechanical and chemical insults, which are capable of inducing the generation of free radicals as well as reactive oxygen species (ROS) of our own metabolism. Extrinsic skin damage develops due...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Borut Poljšak, Raja Dahmane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Dermatology Research and Practice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/135206