Hydration of human nails investigated by NIR-FT-Raman spectroscopy

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology

Volumn 1433, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 210-216

  Wessel, Sonja ^a   Gniadecka, Monika ^a   Jemec, Gregor B E ^a   Wulf, Hans Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Keratin; Protein; Water

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; MATRIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRATION; NAIL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TOE; WATER CONTENT; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

HUMANS; KERATINS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NAILS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 0032788645     PISSN: 01674838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4838(99)00129-6     Document Type: Article

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