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US 9,168,215 B2Granted
Cosmetic use of lacritin-type polypeptides
AssigneeL'oreal
InventorsCaroline Delattre, Dominique Bernard, Mark Donovan
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to the use, in particular cosmetic use, of an effective amount of at least one lacritin-type polypeptide, of an analogue thereof or of a fragment thereof, of at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding this polypeptide, or of at least one agent that modulates the activity, the stability or the expression of this polypeptide, or its interaction with syndecan-1, as an agent useful for the care of the skin and of appendages thereof.
Claims2
A method for characterizing a condition of skin, said method comprising the steps of:
- a) performing, in a first sample isolated from said skin, a quantitative measurement of at least one polypeptide of amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:
- 4, or a nucleic acid sequence encoding said at least one polypeptide;
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- b) comparing said measurement to a reference measurement, wherein the reference measurement is obtained from a quantitative measurement of the polypeptide, or of the nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide, of a second sample taken from reference skin distinct from the skin of the first sample, the quantitative measurements being made by means of an isobaric labeling technique, said condition of the skin being chosen from skin dryness and chronological and/or photoinduced skin ageing.
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