In vivo distribution of carotenoids in different anatomical locations of human skin: Comparative assessment with two different raman spectroscopy methods

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1060-1063

  Darvin, Maxim E ^a   Fluhr, Joachim W ^a,b   Caspers, Peter ^c   van der Pool, André ^b   Richter, Heike ^a   Patzelt, Alexa ^a   Sterry, Wolfram ^a   Lademann, Jürgen ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Bioskin   (Germany)

^c Rivers Diagnostics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Carotenoid; In vivo raman microspectroscopy; Resonance raman spectroscopy; Stratum corneum (SC)

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; FOREARM; FOREHEAD; HAND PALM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SKIN; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STRATUM CORNEUM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; CAROTENOIDS; EPIDERMIS; FOREARM; FOREHEAD; HUMANS; METACARPUS; MIDDLE AGED; SEBACEOUS GLANDS; SKIN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SWEAT GLANDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70849096878     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2009.00946.x     Document Type: Article

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