Friday, November 18, 2011

Anti-oxidant defence mechanism in vitiliginous skin increases with skin type

Abstract

Background  Vitiligo skin shows different burning capacity in people with different phototype. In normal skin antioxidant status is correlated to skin phototype, but unexpectedly it appears that there is a gradual decrease in burning susceptibility of depigmented skin of individuals with increasing phototype (II→VI).


Objective  To assess if the antioxidant response in the lesional vitiligo skin is involved in those protection mechanisms. Moreover, a possible correlation between cutaneous and systemic endogenous antioxidants in vitiligo patients has been investigated.


Methods  We enrolled in the study 29 patients with active vitiligo, divided into five ...

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