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"Acne" Article
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Acne Inflammatory Reaction

By Expert Author: Angelique Jodein
View Summary | Submitted: 2008-06-14 | Word Count: 468 words
Angelique Jodein
Acne, in general, is initiated by several factors. In general, there are four main factors that cause acne: inheritance; hormonal activity; bacteria; and the inflammatory response.

Genetics is an important component as it is well known that several members of the same family can be affected with moderate to severe scarring acne. Another causative factor in acne is the presence of bacteria in the follicular canal. This is no big surprise, as an adult human being hosts ten times as many microbial cells as mammalian cells, and he (she) transport nearly 1.25 kg of microbes. Furthermore, it has been calculated that we provide host for at least 1500 different microbial taxa that collectively contain more than 200 times as many genes as our genome. Most of these organisms have not yet been grown in the laboratory, and so we know very little about them.

Not only our indigenous micro flora protect us against exogenous aggressive microbes, but they also provide us with as much as 10% of our energy requirements, supply a range of vitamins, and have a key role in the development of our defensive system and mucosal surfaces. But that is another story, for indigenous microbes can also be damaging to us when they go out of balance.

Within the follicular canal are bacteria which are innate to the follicular system. Among the microbial flora present are anaerobic, gram positive organisms known as Proprionibacterium acnes. It is interesting to observe that they are present in abundance in pathologically affected sites. They are reduced during oral antimicrobial treatment, and their absence in nonhuman animal skin is striking specially since animals do not suffer acne vulgaris.

Hormones influence the breakout of acne

As you hit the age of puberty your body begins to change in many different ways. Such changes include the production of more hormones, and one of its consequences is the stimulation of the sebum glands which secrete a skin lubricating fluid known as sebum. Sebum protects your hair from drying out, avoids exaggerated moisture loss from the skin surface, maintains the skin soft, and impedes the growth of certain microbes. Sebum glands are located inside your hair follicles (400-800 glands per cm2 in the face, forehead and upper chest) and sebum reaches the surface of your skin through your once clear skin pores.

Our skin is composed of several tissues (epidermal, connective, nervous and muscular) and is one of the largest organs of the body in terms of its surface area (approximately 1.75 m2) and weight (approximately 5 kg.) It has several tasks. Chief among them is defending underlying tissues from microorganisms.

The epidermis is a keratinised, layered, squamous epithelium. Its density ranges from 0.5 to 3mm. depending on its location and, being the external layer of our skin, it is obviously an important site for microbial colonization.
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