Is the filaggrin-histidine-urocanic acid pathway essential for stratum corneum acidification

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2141-2144

  Fluhr, Joachim W ^a,b,c   Elias, Peter M ^a,d   Man, Mao Qiang ^a   Hupe, Melanie ^a,d   Selden, Clare ^e   Sundberg, John P ^f   Tschachler, Erwin ^g   Eckhart, Leopold ^g   Mauro, Theodora M ^a,d   Feingold, Kenneth R ^a,d  

^a SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Bioskin   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILAGGRIN; HISTIDINE; UROCANIC ACID;

ACIDIFICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRATUM CORNEUM;

EID: 77954759983     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2010.74     Document Type: Letter

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