672 Consumer behavior toward aging skin

Aging and Consumer Behavior

Attitudes toward Aging and Their Effects in Behavior

Attitudes have historically been a central focus of social psychological research due to their assumed importance in directing behavior. At its most basic level, an attitude can be defined as an evaluation of a stimulus as reflected in our affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to it (Fiske & Taylor, 1991). The evaluation of someone or something and our subsequent response may reflect a...

A review on nutrition and skin aging

Background: Skin reflects the general health status and is not an exception in the process of aging. Intervention studies indicate that it is possible to delay skin aging and improve skin conditions through diet-based anti-aging strategies. The purpose of the current work was to review recent existing literature regarding the role of nutrition, for and against skin aging processes.Method: This ...

672 Studies on Sulphatases

In the preceding paper (Dodgson & Powell, 1959) it was shown that an arylsulphatase present in the digestive juice and the digestive gland of the edible snail exhibited a shift in optimum pH as the concentration of substrate was increased. This paper describes the partial purification of the digestivegland enzyme and provides further evidence that the shift in optimum pH is not due to the prese...

[Skin aging].

For decades it has been appreciated that aging is the consequence of both genetic and environmental influences. Genetic factors are evident, e.g., in the >100-fold variation among species in the rate of aging; and recent studies of fruit flies, worms, and even mice have identified specific longevity genes whose modification can greatly alter lifespan [22]. Conversely, a role for environmental f...