Skin barrier response to occlusion of healthy and irritated skin: Differences in trans-epidermal water loss, erythema and stratum corneum lipids

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 313-319

  Jungersted, Jakob Mutanu ^a   Høgh, Julie K ^b   Hellgren, Lars I ^b   Jemec, Gregor B E ^a   Agner, Tove ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ceramides; irritant contact dermatitis; occlusion; skin barrier

Indexed keywords

6 HYDROSPHINGOSINE; CERAMIDE; CHOLESTEROL; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; HYDROXY FATTY ACID; LIPID; NITRILE; NONHYDROXY FATTY ACID; PHYTOSPHINGOSINE; SPHINGOSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GLOVE; HEALING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIPID ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCLUSION; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN OCCLUSION; SKIN PERMEABILITY; SKIN WATER LOSS; STRATUM CORNEUM;

ADULT; CERAMIDES; CHOLESTEROL; DERMATITIS, IRRITANT; EPIDERMIS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRILES; SKIN; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SURGICAL TAPE; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649310012     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2010.01773.x     Document Type: Article

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