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- Title
Short-term nanostructural effects of high radiofrequency treatment on the skin tissues of rabbits.
- Authors
Choi, Samjin; Cheong, Youjin; Shin, Jae-Ho; Lee, Hui-Jae; Lee, Gi-Ja; Choi, Seok; Jin, Kyung-Hyun; Park, Hun-Kuk
- Abstract
The aim of this study is to quantitatively investigate the short-term effects of RF tissue-tightening treatment in in vivo rabbit dermal collagen fibrils. These effects were measured at different energy levels and at varying pass procedures on the nanostructural response level using histology and AFM analysis. Each rabbit was divided into one of seven experimental groups, which included the following: control group, and six RF group according to RF energy (20 W and 40 W) and three RF pass procedures. The progressive changes in the diameter and D-periodicity of rabbit dermal collagen fibrils were investigated in detail over a 7-day post-treatment period. The dermal tissues treated with the RF tissue-tightening device showed more prominent inflammatory responses with inflammatory cell ingrowth compared to the control. This effect showed more prominent with the passage of day after treatment. Although an increase in the diameter and D-periodicity of dermal collagen fibrils was identified immediately after the RF treatment, a decrease in the morphology of dermal collagen fibrils continued until post-operative day 7. Furthermore, RF treatment led to the loss of distinct borders. Increases in RF energy with the same pass procedure, as well as an increase in the number of RF passes, increased the occurrence of irreversible collagen fibril injury. A multiple-pass treatment at low energy rather than a single-pass treatment at high energy showed a large amount of collagen fibrils contraction at the nanostructural level.
- Subjects
ECTODERM; HISTOLOGY; ATOMIC force microscopy; ANIMAL models of inflammation; RADIO frequency; NANOSTRUCTURED materials; MEDICAL lasers; LABORATORY rabbits
- Publication
Lasers in Medical Science, 2012, Vol 27, Issue 5, p923
- ISSN
0268-8921
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s10103-011-1016-9