How irritant is water? An overview

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 311-314

  Tsai, Tsen Fang ^a,b   Maibach, Howard I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cumulative irritation; Irritant contact dermatitis; Natural moisturizing factors; Occlusion; Occupational; Stratum corneum; Tropical immersion foot; Water; Wet work

Indexed keywords

IRRITANT AGENT; WATER;

COLD INJURY; FOOT DISEASE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HISTOPATHOLOGIC SKIN REACTION; HUMAN; IRRITANT DERMATITIS; LABORATORY TEST; MOISTURE; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OSMOLARITY; PH; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN WATER LOSS; STRATUM CORNEUM; WATER HARDNESS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033400050     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.1999.tb06990.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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