Age and sex variation in lipid composition of human fingernail plates

Skin Pharmacology and Applied Skin Physiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 111-119

  Helmdach, Marten ^a   Thielitz, Anja ^b   Röpke, Eva Maria ^b   Gollnick, Harald ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aging; HPTLC; Lipids; Nail chemistry; Nail lipid biochemistry; Nail plates; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; HIGH PERFORMANCE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID METABOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0034115176     PISSN: 14222868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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