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Black skin : structure and function /
This book is the first to concentrate on the structure and function of black skin. There are some physiological and structural differences between black and white skin; an area of intense interest is that of differences in response to sunlight and other damaging agents. An understanding of response...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego :
Academic Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Skin color and the evolution of mankind
- Factors that regulate human skin color
- Skin color, vitamin D synthesis and the migration of Homo
- Classifications of mankind
- Structure of black skin
- Epidermis
- Cutaneous appendages
- Dermis
- Comments on the structure of black skin
- Biological differences between blacks and whites
- Hypertension
- Color of eyes, nails and buccal mucosa
- Skin pigmentation, resistance to disease and natural selection
- Cold adaptation
- Infrared, ultraviolet rays and black skin
- UVB susceptibility
- Transepidermal water loss
- Perspiration and body odor
- Acne
- Body hair
- Mongolian spot
- Odds and ends
- Skin melanocytes
- Origins of melanocytes
- Production of melanin by melanocytes
- Variations in cutaneous melanocytes
- Melanosomes and variations in skin color
- Structure of melanosomes
- Fate of melanosomes
- Hormonal control of melanogenesis
- Nonhormonal influences on skin color
- Melanins and related metabolites
- Earlier workers
- Melanin-forming enzyme
- Tyrosinase gene and protein
- Varieties of melanins.
- (cont) Chemistry of melanin
- Melanin-related metabolites
- Biosynthesis of melanin
- Intriguing function of melanin
- Pigmentary disorders that occur in black skin
- Vitiligo
- Other pigmentary disorders
- Chemical agents and pigmentary disorders
- Postinflammatory pigmentary disorders
- Disorders of hyperpigmentation
- Dermatology of black skin
- Actinic keratosis and skin cancer
- Pseudofolliculitis barbae
- Perifolliculitis capitis abscedens et suffodiens
- Keloidal folliculitis
- Dermatosis papulosa nigra
- Disseminate and recurrent infundibulo-folliculitis
- Wound healing and the formation of keloids
- Healing process
- Healing promoting factors
- Wound contraction and scar formation
- Hypertrophic scars and keloids
- Other differences between hypertrophic scars and keloids
- Keloids
- Scars
- Cosmetic surgery
- Cosmetics for black skin
- Cover cosmetics
- Stratum corneum
- Skin lubricants
- Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation
- Melasma
- Hair-grooming techniques
- Reflections on cosmetics.