Epidermal Penetration Increases with Age and May Contribute to Systemic Inflammation

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Bakar Aging Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ² Dermatology Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, CA, USA.
• ³ Department of Dermatology, Tongren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
• ⁴ Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Dermatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ⁷ Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ⁸ Dermatology Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, CA, USA; Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: thea.mauro@ucsf.edu.