Assessment of Skin Barrier Function Using Transepidermal Water Loss: Effect of Age
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Pharmaceutical Research
- Vol. 06 (11) , 949-953
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1015941412620
Abstract
To probe age-related changes in skin barrier function, transepidermal water loss (TEWL) rates have been measured in “young” (19–42 years) and “old” (69–85 years) subjects. TEWL was determined at...This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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