Investigative Dermatology

PHa JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

Several years ago (1, 2) we conducted studies attempting to deliberately produce tinea pedis by immersing the healthy (fungus-free) feet of volunteer subjects in suspensions of living dermatophytes for 30 minutes. The source of these fungi was either fragmented cultures of dermatophytes or the foot bath water of persons with myeologically proven, clinically active tinea pedis. Among 68 subjects...

Tbe Jotjbnal of Investigative Dermatology

An improved histochemical method for demonstrating tyrosinase activity has been described which utilizes small amounts of dopa to shorten the induction period for the enzymatic oxidation of tyrosine. This method is a rapid, reproducible and specific way to localize tyrosinase in tissue sections. With this method tyrosinase activity was demonstrated in normal and neoplastic melanocytes and in no...

Partnership among dermatology, the Society for Investigative Dermatology, and industry: suggestions for change.

The state of research in cutaneous biology: a perspective in the 50th anniversary year of the Society for Investigative Dermatology and The Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

In the Editorial launching the very first issue of The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Dr. Marion Sulzberger wrote, ‘‘y the laboratory investigation of today is the practice of tomorrow’’ [1]. This 50th Anniversary Issue is filled with evidence of the maturation of investigative dermatology, but what has been the impact of such basic research in cutaneous biology on the practice of dermat...

The Taiwanese Dermatological Association and the Taiwanese Society for Investigative Dermatology: brief history and current status.

© 2009 The Society for Investigative Dermatology www.jidonline.org 1313 the formal clinical practice of dermatology in Taiwan was founded more than a century ago. In 1908, a department focusing on skin diseases was established in Taipei Hospital (later known as the National Taiwan University Hospital). In 1913, the chairman of the department, Obo Otohiko, was sent to Germany for 2 years to purs...