Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) have been applied to treatment of skin wounds. In the current study, the effect of BMSCs on secretion of several cytokines during skin wound healing was investigated. In addition, the mechanism underlying the promoting effect of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and stromal cellderived factor-1 (SDF-1) on BMSCs was also preliminarily explored. BMSC...

In external beam radiation therapy (EBRT), skin dose measurement is important to evaluate dose coverage of superficial target volumes. Treatment planning systems (TPSs) are often inaccurate in this region of the patient, so in vivo measurements are necessary for skin surface dose estimation. In this work, superficial dose distributions were measured using radiochromic translucent poly(vinyl alc...

Condition factor of fish species is very important parameter for understanding fish biology and pathology. For that purpose, we sampled 120 fish individuals from the Sava River at four locations (Posavina region), where most of them belongs to the Cyprinidae family while the others belonging to the families: Percidae, Siluridae, Ameiuridae, Esocidae and Gobiidae. In total fish sample we found t...

Exposure to solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation is a causative factor in skin photocarcinogenesis and photoaging, and an urgent need exists for improved strategies for skin photoprotection. The redox-sensitive transcription factor Nrf2 (nuclear factor-E2-related factor 2), a master regulator of the cellular antioxidant defense against environmental electrophilic insult, has recently emerged as an ...

The skin is an important organ that not only covers the body but also performs various functions, such as temperature regulation, respiration, sensory functions, and immune functions. Therefore, if the functions of the skin are lost, the entire body would be affected and we would be unable to live. Recent studies have shown that hyaluronan is an important factor that maintains skin homeostasis ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder (SPD) is often conceptualized as a behavioral addiction in which aberrant reward processing may play an important role. The current study sought to develop a self-report instrument--the Skin Picking Reward Scale (SPRS)--that measures how strongly skin picking is 'liked' (i.e., the degree of pleasurable feelings while receiving the reward) ...

The Wnt gene family encodes a set of highly conserved secreted signaling proteins that have major roles in embryogenesis and tissue homeostasis. Yet the expression of this family of important mediators in psoriasis, a disease characterized by marked changes in keratinocyte growth and differentiation, is incompletely understood. We subjected 58 paired biopsies from lesional and uninvolved psoria...

introduction: tracking temporal changes of temperature during laser skin treatment plays an important role in improving the process of laser skin treatment itself. there are a number of methods to analyze temperature’s temporal dependency during laser skin treatment; some of those methods depend on imaging the skin with thermal cameras. however, the use of thermal cameras exhibits specific prob...

The classification of skin is a vital necessity for the evaluation of the effect of different skin care products and skin treatments. World demographics continue to evolve and diversify at unprecedented levels. With this growth and mixing of ethnicities come significant changes in the composition of world skin types (1). It is becoming increasingly aware that the world composition includes many...