Mobility of water in human stratum corne
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Gerald B. Kasting; Namrata D. Barai; Tsuo-Feng Wang; Johannes M. Nitsche
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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At low water activities, stratum corneum (SC) water sorption resembles that in other keratinized tissues (i.e., wool and horn), whereas at high water activities, it resembles that in polymeric hydrogels. We propose that the concentration-dependent water diffusivity observed in these other systems ap