BACKGROUND Aesthetic repair of syndactyly of the toes is desirable because patients may have psychological concerns about its appearance. There are 2 important factors for the aesthetic repair of syndactyly of the toe. One is to hide the operative scar from the visual site (dorsal site), whereas the other is to create an interdigital space close to the normal anatomical skin characteristics (2 ...

Because tactile perception relies on the response of large populations of receptors distributed across the skin, we seek to characterize how a mechanical deformation of the skin at one location affects the skin at another. To this end, we introduce a novel non-contact method to characterize the surface waves produced in the skin under a variety of stimulation conditions. Specifically, we delive...

Trichophytia profunda acuta of the glabrous skin (TPAGS) arose in a 67-year-old Japanese man. The patient presented indurated erythematous plaques and nodules on his left forearm. Direct microscopic examination of the scale in KOH preparation was negative for fungal elements, and culture for dermatophytes was also negative. Although fungal infection could not be proven in hematoxillin-eosin sta...

Pain thresholds in humans were determined for heat stimulations of the skin before and after a mild injury induced by a single conditioning stimulus (CS) of 50 degrees C and 100 sec duration. The same stimuli were delivered to the receptive fields of C fiber and A fiber mechanoheat-sensitive nociceptors (CMH and AMH nociceptors, respectively) and of low threshold warm and cold receptors in the ...

Abstract The glabrous skin around the nostrils in mammals is called a rhinarium or planum nasale. Rhinarium has multiple epidermal domes that are generally assumed to form tactile surface. innervated by branch of trigeminal nerve which associated with stimuli such as touch, chemical irritants and temperature. In this study, our aim was correlate variation sensory innervation different feeding b...

Models of human thermoregulatory function generally assume that heat transfer across the skin surface is uniform. However, only glabrous skin regions contain unique vascular structures that enable a large volume of blood to flow immediately below the skin surface. These are the body’s radiators. We are constructing a novel model of thermoregulatory function that incorporates heat transfer acros...