Nickel in nails, hair and plasma from nickel-hypersensitive women.
Open Access
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Medical Journals Sweden AB in Acta Dermato-Venereologica
- Vol. 70 (5) , 417-420
- https://doi.org/10.2340/0001555570417420
Abstract
The concentrations of nickel in finger-nails, toe-nails, hair and plasma from 71 nickel-hypersensitive women and 20 non-hypersensitive women were determined. Nickel concentrations in finger-nails were significantly higher than in toe-nails in both the nickel-hypersensitive group and the control group. Nickel-sensitive women had significantly higher levels of nickel in toe-nails, hair and plasma than had control subjects, whereas there was no significant difference in nickel concentration in finger-nails between the two groups. No correlation could be demonstrated between nickel levels in any combination of nails, hair and plasma in the nickel-hypersensitive or in the control group.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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