Ceramidase activity in bacterial skin flora as a possible cause of ceramide deficiency in atopic dermatitis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 101-104

  Ohnishi, Yoshinori ^a   Okino, Nozomu ^b   Ito, Makoto ^b   Imayama, Shuhei ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLSPHINGOSINE DEACYLASE; CERAMIDE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; SPHINGOMYELIN; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CELL KINETICS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032951181     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.6.1.101-104.1999     Document Type: Article

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