Imagistic Noninvasive Assessment of Skin Ageing and Anti-Ageing Therapies
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چکیده
The significant increase in life expectancy and the process of population ageing are aspects that generate important social and economic changes and influence the health and research policies throughout the world. The ageing phenomenon represents a natural, slow and irreversible process, which affects all body tissues, being determined by a multitude of factors that contribute in different proportions to the characteristic molecular, cellular, tissular and clinical changes. (Kohl et al, 2011)
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