The Effect of Water Hardness on Surfactant Deposition after Washing and Subsequent Skin Irritation in Atopic Dermatitis Patients and Healthy Control Subjects

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 68-77

  Danby, Simon G ^a   Brown, Kirsty ^a   Wigley, Andrew M ^a   Chittock, John ^a   Pyae, Phyoe K ^a   Flohr, Carsten ^b   Cork, Michael J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c SHEFFIELD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; SURFACTANT; DODECYL SULFATE; FILAGGRIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; ION EXCHANGE; MALE; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANITATION; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN PERMEABILITY; SKIN WATER LOSS; WATER HARDNESS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; THERMOREGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; SKIN; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85039968214     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2017.08.037     Document Type: Article

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