pH directly regulates epidermal permeability barrier homeostasis, and stratum corneum integrity/cohesion

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 345-353

  Hachem, Jean Pierre ^b   Crumrine, Debra ^b   Fluhr, Joachim ^b,c   Brown, Barbara E ^b   Feingold, Kenneth R ^a,b   Elias, Peter M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corneodesmosome; Permeability barrier function; Serine protease; Serine protease inhibitor; Stratum corneum; Superbase; Transepidermal water loss

Indexed keywords

1,1,3,3 TETRAMETHYLGUANIDINE; ALCOHOL; BUFFER; DESMOGLEIN 1; GLUCOSYLCERAMIDASE; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDIFICATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DESMOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN PERMEABILITY; SKIN SURFACE; SKIN WATER LOSS; STRATUM CORNEUM; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZYMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0041621569     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1747.2003.12365.x     Document Type: Article

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