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Perimenopausal Aging and Oral Hormone Replacement Therapy

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Healthy aging in women is a physiological process modulated by special features particularly occurring during the perimenopausal period. The dermal extracellular matrix is involved in this process linked to hypoestrogenemia. In these instances, the skin presentation is occasionally indicative of some distinct internal failures. Measuring the in vivo mechanical functions of skin represents a convenient means for quantifying the perimenopausal skin changes. Such assessments have shown a beneficial effect of hormone replacement therapy on the skin status.

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  1. Laboratory of Skin Bioengineering and Imaging, Department of Dermatopathology, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium

    Trinh Hermanns-Lê, Claudine Piérard-Franchimont & Gérald E. Piérard

  2. Department of Dermatopathology, Unilab Lg, University Hospital of Liège, 4000, Liège, Belgium

    Trinh Hermanns-Lê

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  1. Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Miranda A. Farage

  2. Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Kenneth W. Miller

  3. Department Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

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Hermanns-Lê, T., Piérard-Franchimont, C., Piérard, G.E. (2015). Perimenopausal Aging and Oral Hormone Replacement Therapy. In: Farage, M., Miller, K., Maibach, H. (eds) Textbook of Aging Skin. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27814-3_34-2

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