Morphology of lipid alterations in the epidermis: A review

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 180-192

  Menon, Gopinathan ^a   Ghadially, Ruby ^b  

^a Avon Products Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cholesterol; disorders of cornification; electron microscopy; epidermal permeability barrier; lamellar bodies; lipid bilayers; ruthenium tetroxide; transepidermal water loss

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAMMALS; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS;

CORNIFICATION; DISORDER OF CORNIFICATION; EPIDERMAL PERMEABILITY BARRIER; LAMELLAR BODY; LIPID ALTERATION; PERMEABILITY BARRIERS; RUTHENIUM TETROXIDE; STRATUM CORNEUM; TRANSEPIDERMAL WATER LOSS; ULTRASTRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATIONS;

LIPID BILAYERS;

3 CHLOROALANINE; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHOLESTEROL; EMOLLIENT AGENT; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; GLYCOLIPID; MEVINOLIN; PETROLATUM; SKIN LIPID;

CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CONGENITAL ICHTHYOSIFORM ERYTHRODERMA; EPIDERMIS; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID DEFICIENCY; GAUCHER DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; ICHTHYOSIS; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN PERMEABILITY; STRATUM CORNEUM;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030903935     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19970501)37:3<180::AID-JEMT3>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Review

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