Ultra-pure soft water ameliorates atopic skin disease by preventing metallic soap deposition in NC/Tnd mice and reduces skin dryness in humans

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 787-791

  Tanaka, Akane ^a   Matsuda, Akira ^a   Jung, Kyungsook ^a   Jang, Hyosun ^a   Ahn, Ginnae ^a   Ishizaka, Saori ^a   Amagai, Yosuke ^a   Oida, Kumiko ^a   Arkwright, Peter D ^b   Matsuda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal model; Atopic dermatitis; Metallic soap; Pruritus; Skin barrier

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MAGNESIUM; SOAP; THYMIC STROMAL LYMPHOPOIETIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; ULTRA PURE SOFT WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; AUTACOID; CYTOKINE; MINERAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY SKIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PRURITUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN ALLERGY; STRATUM CORNEUM; UPREGULATION; WATER CONTENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; BATH; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DISEASE MODEL; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PRECIPITATION; SANITATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BATHS; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; CYTOKINES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MINERALS; PILOT PROJECTS; PRURITUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN; SOAPS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATER; WATER SOFTENING;

EID: 84940041507     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-2083     Document Type: Article

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