TY - GEN
T1 - NOT VISCOUS DRAG BUT MATRIC FORCES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SKIN BARRIER FUNCTION
AU - van Kemenade, Patricia M.
AU - Huyghe, Jacques M.
AU - Douven, Lucien F.A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1997 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). All rights reserved.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - The outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum is only about 20 microns thick, yet plays an important role in preventing an excessive loss of body fluids to the dry environment. By damaging the stratum corneum (mechanically or chemically) the transepidermal water loss (TEWL) increases. For instance removing the whole stratum corneum by stripping the skin with adhesive tape increases the water loss by 10 times (Lo et al., 1990), and after two successive exposures of skin to a detergent solution water loss is almost twice the basal value (Barel et al., 1995).
AB - The outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum is only about 20 microns thick, yet plays an important role in preventing an excessive loss of body fluids to the dry environment. By damaging the stratum corneum (mechanically or chemically) the transepidermal water loss (TEWL) increases. For instance removing the whole stratum corneum by stripping the skin with adhesive tape increases the water loss by 10 times (Lo et al., 1990), and after two successive exposures of skin to a detergent solution water loss is almost twice the basal value (Barel et al., 1995).
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U2 - 10.1115/IMECE1997-0215
DO - 10.1115/IMECE1997-0215
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126997361
T3 - ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
SP - 35
EP - 36
BT - Advances in Bioengineering
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 1997 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 1997 - Advances in Bioengineering
Y2 - 16 November 1997 through 21 November 1997
ER -