Green tea and red light-A powerful duo in skin rejuvenation

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 969-971

  Sommer, Andrei P ^a   Zhu, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION SPECTRA; BIOLOGICAL ACTIONS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; FACIAL REJUVENATION; GREEN TEA; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT TREATMENTS; MICROENVIRONMENTS; PHOTOTHERAPY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RED LIGHT; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SCAVENGING CAPACITY; SKIN REJUVENATION; VISIBLE LIGHT;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OXYGEN;

ENDOCRINOLOGY;

COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; FACE; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; PHOTOTHERAPY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REJUVENATION; SKIN AGING; TEA;

EID: 73849104915     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2009.2547     Document Type: Article

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