Oxygen partial pressure in outer layers of skin of human finger nail folds

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 549, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 855-863

  Wang, Wen ^a   Winlove, C P ^b   Michel, C C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID PARAFFIN; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CELL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; FINGER NAIL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROELECTRODE; MICROSCOPE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ADULT; CUTANEOUS MICROCIRCULATION; FEMALE; MALE; SKIN; STEADY STATE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROELECTRODES; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; OXYGEN; REPERFUSION; SKIN;

EID: 0038042372     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.037994     Document Type: Article

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