Cutaneous skin tags are common skin growths, usually harmless, which protrude from the skin and may have a short, narrow stalk. Typically, they are the same color as the skin or a little darkerand appear mostly in the axilla, groin, and cervical area. In this report, we present a 30-year-old female with pedunculated and <spa...

Pigment blemishes, wrinkles, and flaccid skin are not just the natural consequence of the passage of time, but the result of excessive time in the sun. Photodamage also develops into actinic keratoses and skin cancer, and because we live in an era of ‘ozone holes’, we can expect the incidence of photoaging and skin cancer to increase dramatically. People are simultaneously living longer than ev...

Background: The interaction between nervous and immune systems has been under investigation. Transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1(TRPV1) is a ligand gated calcium channel expressed by sensory neurons which mediates neurogenic inflammatory response. Substance p which can be released following exposure to capsaicin is a TRPV1 inducer, shown to have altered concentration and function in m...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The genus Malasezia currently includes fourteen species that have been isolated from healthy and diseased human and animal skin. However, there were differences with respect to the species most commonly isolated, not only in patients with various skin diseases but also between healthy individuals. The aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence of Malassezia specie...

BACKGROUND Psoriasis and atopic dermatitis (AD) are chronic inflammatory skin diseases, which negatively influence the quality of life. In the last years, several evidences highlighted the pivotal role of skin bacteria in worsening the symptomatology of AD and psoriasis. In the present study we evaluated the skin microbiota composition in accurately selected subjects affected by (AD) and psoria...