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Aspects on the physiology of human skin: Studies using particle probe analysis by Forslind, Bo; Lindberg, Magnus; Roomans, Godfried M.; Pallon, Jan; Werner-Linde, Ylva is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.

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The cellular part of the skin, the epidermis, is a very thin structure, approximately 120 μm thick, a fact which has hindered the exploration of the physiology of the epidermis in normal and pathological conditions. An additional complication is the fact that the epidermis contains layers of cells at different stages of differentiation. Therefore, conventional physiological capillary probes cannot, with any satisfactory precision, be located within a specified cell of a specified layer of the skin in vivo. Hence, alternative ways for the exploration of skin physiology have been sought for. In the past, analysis of the elemental content of skin was done as bulk measurements, and surprisingly wide ranges of elemental content were recorded. The width of these ranges was most certainly due to the sampling methods used rather than the sensitivity of the chosen method of analysis. Also, these older measurements did not discriminate between the different strata, and therefore the information provided little if any substance for a functional analysis of processes involved in normal and pathological differentiation of the epidermis. Particle probes, however, have been able to overcome such

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Author

Forslind, Bo; Lindberg, Magnus; Roomans, Godfried M.; Pallon, Jan; Werner-Linde, Ylva

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1059-910X)

Published

1997

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)