The barrier component and the driving force component of transepidermal water loss and their application to skin irritant tests

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 425-435

  Endo, Koji ^a   Suzuki, Noboru ^b   Yoshida, Osamu ^a   Sato, Hirayuki ^a   Fujikura, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a KAO CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barrier; Driving force; Irritant response; Transepidermal water loss

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; DERMATOLOGY; ETHERS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; MASS TRANSFER; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER VAPOR;

NICOTINIC ACID METHYL ESTER; SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE; TRANSEPIDERMAL WATER LOSS;

SKIN;

ACETONE; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; ETHER; NICOTINIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN PERMEABILITY; SKIN WATER LOSS; STRATUM CORNEUM; TOXICITY TESTING; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER VAPOR;

ACETONE; ADULT; EPIDERMIS; ESTERS; ETHER, ETHYL; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NICOTINIC ACIDS; SKIN TESTS; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; WATER;

EID: 34848903681     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2007.00247.x     Document Type: Article

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