Matcha supplementation did not restore total collagen content over the experimental period; however, the UV + Matcha group showed a trend toward a more favorable collagen composition, with numerically higher type I collagen, lower type III collagen, and a higher type I/III ratio relative to the UV group.
← all excerpts
Oral whole-leaf matcha partially attenuates UV-induced dermoepidermal disruption and collagen phenotype alterations in a rat model of repeated photoaging.
2
—
—
The sentences
The UV + Matcha group showed numerically higher type I collagen values and a higher type I/III collagen ratio than the UV group; however, these pairwise differences did not reach statistical significance.