Method of identifying cosmetic agents for moisturizing skin
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsQing NMN STELLA, Michael Keith ROBINSON, Kevin John MILLS
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Abstract
Methods of identifying potential skin moisturizing actives for the treatment of dry skin and method of formulating a moisturizing skin care composition using actives identified by the method. Moisturizing agents can be identified by comparing the transcriptional profile of a skin tissue sample contacted by a test agent to a negative or positive control to determine if the regulation of certain genes corresponds to the appropriate direction of regulation indicated by the control. Agents identified as skin moisturizing agents can then be incorporated into a skin moisturizing composition.
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A screening method for identifying a cosmetic test agent as a skin moisturizing agent, the method comprising:
- a. contacting a skin tissue sample with a cosmetic test agent;
- b. generating a transcriptional profile for the skin tissue sample, wherein the transcriptional profile comprises data related to the transcription of at least two genes selected from v-rel avian reticuloendotheliosis viral oncogene homolog gene (REL);
- integrin beta-1 gene (ITGB1);
- transforming growth factor beta receptor II gene (TGFBR2);
- YY1-associated protein 1 gene (YY1AP1);
- mitogen-activated protein kinase 3 gene (MAP3K);
- caspase 3, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase gene (CASP3);
- telomerase reverse transcriptase gene (TERT);
- mdm2 p53 binding protein homolog gene (MDM2);
- and laminin, gamma 2 gene (LAMC2);
- c. comparing the transcriptional profile for the skin tissue sample to a positive control transcriptional profile;
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- d. identifying the cosmetic test agent as a skin moisturizing agent for human skin when the transcriptional profile for the skin tissue sample and the positive control transcriptional profile are concordant.
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