In vivo measurement of water content of the fingernail and its seasonal change

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 126-132

  Egawa, Mariko ^a   Ozaki, Yukihiro ^b   Takahashi, Motoji ^a  

^a SHISEIDO RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fingernail; NIR; Seasonal; Water

Indexed keywords

INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER;

FINGERNAIL; IN VIVO MEASUREMENTS; LEAST SQUARE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (NIR); SEASONAL CHANGE; WATER CONTENT;

SKIN;

AGING; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; JAPAN; MEASUREMENT; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER CONTENT; WINTER;

ADULT; BODY WATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NAIL DISEASES; NAILS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER;

EID: 33645571737     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0909-752X.2006.00141.x     Document Type: Article

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