photoaging
Sign in to saveAlso known as solar elastosis, photoageing, dermatoheliosis
thumb|Photoaging of a woman.
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- Subclass of
- skin disease
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- ICD-9-CM
- 692.74
- Commons category
- Photoaging
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Effects of UV light
- Molecular and genetic changes
- Pigmentation
- Immunosuppression
- Degradation of collagen
- Retinoic acids and photodamage
- Signs, symptoms and histopathology
- Defense mechanisms
- Epidermal thickness
- Pigment
- Repair of DNA mutation and apoptosis
- Tissue inhibitors of MMPs (TIMPs)
- Antioxidants
- Treatment
- Primary prevention
- Secondary protection
- Tertiary prevention
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Photoaging of a woman.
Photoaging or photoageing (also known as "dermatoheliosis") is a term used for the characteristic changes to skin induced by chronic UVA and UVB exposure.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “photoaging” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.