BACKGROUND Inhaled glucocorticosteroids reduce airway inflammation in asthma patients, thereby improving lung function and reducing airway hyperresponsiveness and symptoms. The response to glucocorticosteroids can be measured with the glucocorticosteroid skin-blanching test. We investigated if asthmatics have a lower skin-blanching response to glucocorticosteroids than non-asthmatic subjects an...

Abstract Malignant melanoma is a very aggressive tumour with the ability to metastasize at an early stage. Therefore, detection of great importance. Multiphoton tomography new non-invasive examination method in clinical diagnosis skin alterations that can be used for such diagnosis. In this paper, automated evaluation multiphoton images presented. The following features cellular and subcellular...

Infant skin is different from adult in structure, function, and composition. Despite these differences, the skin barrier is competent at birth in healthy, full-term neonates. The primary focus of this paper is on the developing skin barrier in healthy, full-term neonates and infants. Additionally, a brief discussion of the properties of the skin barrier in premature neonates and infants with ab...

Oily skin (seborrhea) is a common cosmetic problem that occurs when oversized sebaceous glands produce excessive amounts of sebum giving the appearance shiny and greasy skin. at same time malnourished because wash out protective hydrating factors, such as natural moisturizing factor, therefore dual treatment necessary, which consists meticulous cleaning profound nourishment Skin microcirculatio...

Vitiligo is a disorder causing skin depigmentation, in which several factors have been proposed for its pathogenesis: Environmental, genetic and biological aspects of melanocytes, even those of the surrounding keratinocytes. However, the lack of understanding of the mechanisms has complicated the task of predicting the development and progression. The present study used microarray analysis to c...

there has been a great increase in the consumption of various food additives in recent years. the purpose of this study was to identify the incidence of sensitization to food additives by using skin prick test in patients with allergy and to determine the concordance rate between positive skin tests and oral challenge in hypersensitivity to additives. this cross-sectional study included 125 (fe...

hair samples from 58 healthy camels were examined for the presence of saprophytic fungi. one -hundred and seventy-four samples were obtained from three different locations of dromedary camel's body. several fungal specific media were used for isolating and identifying the saprophytes. fungal isolates belonged to 15 genera. the most common in order of frequency were members of the genera aspergi...

A study was made of the flora of the skin in hospital inpatients and healthy people to demonstrate the presence of non-fermenting Gram-negative rods of the Acinetobacter and Moraxella group. These organisms were found to be present on the skin of 34.3% of inpatients and occurred even more commonly in those patients with kidney disease. It was also present on the skin of 20% of a group of health...