Anti-Aging Status of Skin Characterized by the Skin Antioxidative Protection SAP – Efficacy of Topically Applied Antioxidants

lipoperoxides leading to a considerable membrane alteration (membrane per-meability increases, fluidity of the lipids and proteins mosaic changes, all the ac-tive transport processes and enzymatic activities are modified). Structural pro-teins and enzymes undergo the alter-ation of lateral chains, that turns into aggregation phenomena, fragmentation, cross-linking. Sugars react immediately with ROS giving result to the formation of toxic and unstable products. Nucleic acids are not excluded from the ROS ac-tion, even though they are a quite shel-tered target. Whatever is the substrate o