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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1978-4-26
pubmed:abstractText
Actinic damage (actinic elastosis) affecting the internal elastic lamina appears to be the prime cause of 'age change' and arteritis of the temporal artery. Resorption and removal of altered elastin (elastolysis) is an integral part of the pathology of actinic damage. Actinic irradiation is probably responsible for the destruction and disappearance of a vast number of arterioles in elastotic skin. The intimate connection between temporal arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica prompts the belief that the vascular and other internal malign components of the temporal arteritis/polymyalgia rheumatica syndrome might likewise be due, albeit indirectly, to the same actinic cause. Actinic elastotic damage at the body surface could have this effect by provoking a state of systemic elastolysis. Although ultraviolet (uv) light is often regarded as the sole cause of actinic elastosis, penetrating infrared (heat) irradiation may deserve a large or even a dominant share of the blame.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0007-0963
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
98
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1-13
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1978
pubmed:articleTitle
A concept of diffuse actinic arteritis. The role of actinic damage to elastin in 'age change' and arteritis of the temporal artery and in polymyalgia rheumatica.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article