Oral administration of French maritime pine bark extract (Flavangenol®) improves clinical symptoms in photoaged facial skin

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages 275-286

  Furumura, Minao ^a,b   Sato, Noriko ^a   Kusaba, Nobutaka ^c   Takagaki, Kinya ^c   Nakayama, Juichiro ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Toyo Shinyaku Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiaging; Antioxidants; Pine bark extract; Polyphenols; Skin photoaging

Indexed keywords

FLAVANGENOL; MELANIN; PINUS MARITIMA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIFLAVONOID; PROANTHOCYANIDIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARK; BODY WEIGHT; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOAGING; PINE; PINUS MARITIMA; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYTOTHERAPY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; BIFLAVONOIDS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANINS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PINUS; PLANT BARK; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROANTHOCYANIDINS; SKIN AGING; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 84871692550     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S33165     Document Type: Article

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