A research team from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine has developed a vaccine against acne. After being tested on experimental mice, this vaccine proved that it reduces the inflammation that accompanies acne by neutralizing the effect of one of the enzymes secreted by bacteria associated with it. I love young people.
Between 70% and 80% of people suffer from acne at some point in their lives, usually during adolescence, and the causes of this problem are due to genetic, environmental and bacterial factors.
The study, which was published in the scientific journal Nature Communication, which took more than 10 years, focused on the relationship between acne and a specific type of bacteria that lives on human skin called “catechebacterium,” and why these bacteria sometimes lead to the appearance of acne on the surface of the skin. .
The researchers found that these bacteria secrete two types of enzymes: HylA and HylB, and that the first type is the one that causes the inflammation that accompanies acne pimples on the surface of the skin. When the second type of enzymes works to calm skin infections.
The Medical Express website, which specializes in medical research, quoted researcher George Lee, one of the study participants, as saying, “Based on this information, the research team created a vaccine that targets the enzyme (HYLA), and they actually succeeded in reducing the associated infections.” For young love.
The researchers emphasized that the importance of this study is to shed light on the genetic factors of acne, and to devise therapeutic methods to target this problem.
Specialists from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine in the United States participated in this research.