Age-dependent changes in stratum corneum barrier function

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 409-415

  Boireau Adamezyk, E ^a   Baillet Guffroy, A ^a   Stamatas, G N ^b  

^a University Paris Saclay   (France)

^b JOHNSON AND JOHNSON   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier function; Raman spectroscopy; Skin aging; Skin lipids

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; DERMATOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

BARRIER FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MICRO SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR LEVELS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SKIN AGING; TRANSEPIDERMAL WATER LOSS; WATER CONCENTRATIONS;

STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

CHOLESTEROL; PROTEIN; SKIN LIPID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; CHEEK; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FACE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; RAMAN CONFOCAL MICROSPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN SURFACE; SKIN WATER LOSS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STRATUM CORNEUM; ADOLESCENT; AGING; BODY WATER; EPIDERMIS; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN ABSORPTION; THERMOREGULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BODY WATER; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN ABSORPTION; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

EID: 84907971967     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/srt.12132     Document Type: Article

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