Can topically applied optical clearing agents increase the epidermal damage threshold and enhance therapeutic efficacy?

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 93-95

  Khan, Misbah H ^a   Chess, Samuel ^b   Choi, Bernard ^a   Kelly, Kristen M ^a,b   Nelson, J Stuart ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; MACROGOL; POLYMER; POLYPROPYLENE; POLYPROPYLENE GLYCOL; SUCROSE; SURGILUBE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL VACUOLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; DRUG PENETRATION; EPIDERMIS INJURY; EX VIVO STUDY; FROZEN SECTION; GEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROPHILICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFRARED RADIATION; LETTER; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEODYMIUM LASER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARAMETER; PHOTON; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTION INDEX; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN PENETRATION; SKIN PERMEABILITY; STRATUM CORNEUM; THICKNESS;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYMERS; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; SKIN; TATTOOING;

EID: 4344638894     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20078     Document Type: Letter

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