Extracellular Matrix Modulation: Optimizing Skin Care and Rejuvenation Procedures

April 2016 | Volume 15 | Issue 4 | Department | 64 | Copyright © April 2016


Abstract
Similar to how the chronic wound healing process requires wound bed preparation before therapeutic intervention, treatment of chronic aging of the skin would likely benefit from a “skin bed preparation” to optimize the outcome of rejuvenation procedures and skin maintenance programs. This involves introducing agents that can combat stress-induced oxidation, proteasome dysfunction, and non-enzymatic cross linkages involved in glycation end products, to collectively modulate the damaged extracellular matrix, and upregulate neocollagenesis and elastin production.