The dynamics of the skin's immune system

AV Nguyen, AM Soulika - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
The skin is a complex organ that has devised numerous strategies, such as physical,
chemical, and microbiological barriers, to protect the host from external insults. In addition …

Recent progress in tissue optical clearing for spectroscopic application

AY Sdobnov, ME Darvin, EA Genina… - … Acta Part A: Molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper aims to review recent progress in optical clearing of the skin and over naturally
turbid biological tissues and blood using this technique in vivo and in vitro with multiphoton …

Enhancement strategies for transdermal drug delivery systems: Current trends and applications

D Ramadon, MTC McCrudden, AJ Courtenay… - Drug delivery and …, 2021 - Springer
Transdermal drug delivery systems have become an intriguing research topic in
pharmaceutical technology area and one of the most frequently developed pharmaceutical …

Supramolecular nanofibrillar hydrogels as highly stretchable, elastic and sensitive ionic sensors

X Zhang, N Sheng, L Wang, Y Tan, C Liu, Y Xia… - Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a growing demand for flexible and stretchable strain/pressure sensors for different
applications. However, existing conductors usually cannot meet all the requirements for use …

Optical methods for non-invasive determination of skin penetration: current trends, advances, possibilities, prospects, and translation into in vivo human studies

ME Darvin - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Information on the penetration depth, pathways, metabolization, storage of vehicles, active
pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and functional cosmetic ingredients (FCIs) of topically …

Hydrogen bound water profiles in the skin influenced by optical clearing molecular agents—Quantitative analysis using confocal Raman microscopy

AY Sdobnov, ME Darvin, J Schleusener… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Confocal Raman microscopy has been used to measure depth‐dependent profiles of
porcine skin ex vivo in the high wavenumber region after application of molecular optical …

Tissue patrol by resident memory CD8+ T cells in human skin

FE Dijkgraaf, TR Matos, M Hoogenboezem… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Emerging data show that tissue-resident memory T (TRM) cells play an important protective
role at murine and human barrier sites. TRM cells in the epidermis of mouse skin patrol their …

Melanin distribution from the dermal–epidermal junction to the stratum corneum: non-invasive in vivo assessment by fluorescence and Raman microspectroscopy

BP Yakimov, EA Shirshin, J Schleusener… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The fate of melanin in the epidermis is of great interest due to its involvement in numerous
physiological and pathological processes in the skin. Melanin localization can be assessed …

Non-invasive measurements of blood glucose levels by time-gating mid-infrared optoacoustic signals

N Uluç, S Glasl, F Gasparin, T Yuan, H He, D Jüstel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Non-invasive glucose monitoring (NIGM) represents an attractive alternative to finger
pricking for blood glucose assessment and management of diabetes. Nevertheless, current …

Recent advances in characterization of melanin pigments in biological samples

K Wakamatsu, S Ito - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The melanin pigments eumelanin (EM) and pheomelanin (PM), which are dark brown to
black and yellow to reddish-brown, respectively, are widely found among vertebrates. They …