Measurement of collagen‐fibre diameter in human skin
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Cutaneous Pathology
- Vol. 11 (1) , 18-26
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0560.1984.tb00345.x
Abstract
A method for the measurement of collagen fibre diameter in human skin is described. Photographic reduction of electron micrograph negatives onto positive transparency film allows the use of a Quantimet 720 image analysis system for relatively rapid determination of mean collagen fibre diameter based upon the mean cross‐sectional area of a single electron microscope field. The mean collagen fibre diameter from papillary and reticular dermis in normal skin was 56.2 ± 2.5 nm and 62.8 ± 4.3 nm respectively, and exhibited slightly skewed Unimodal distributions.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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