Apparently, our skin cells have an inner clock

March 18, 2013 - PRLog -- According to research from personal company Beiersdorf AG and Charite University Medicine Berlin researchers, skin regeneration is controlled by an inner time clock, which has been discovered to be within human skin cells.

The test was conducted in Beierdorf’s Test Center located in Hamburg. The circadian rhythms of the stress were hormone cortisol studied; twenty test subjects were involved in the test. Within four hour intervals, cell samples were taken from them, over the total time of 24 hours. About 10% of the genes in skin cells follow their own rhythm. To summarise the science behind it, one particular molecule, called Klf9, was noticeably active mostly during the day, while cell division slowed down during samples when it’s concentration was increased.

The idea behind the influence of Klf9 on cell division could be inspiration for a new formula of anti-ageing care, essentially bringing out of synch skin back into rhythm with it’s inner clock. You maybe forgiven for thinking it sounds a little too farfetched, but it certainly is an interesting idea and something to keep and ear out for.

Another idea is it could provide information as to what time of the day is best for operating on somebody, so that the healing of wounds has an advantage.

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