Various fruit, vegetables and plants contain a high amount of carotenoids such as beta-carotene, lycopene, lutein, zeaxanthin, and other antioxidants in different concentrations and combinations. These substances used by nature are an effective defense mechanism against the destructive action of fre
Two-color Raman spectroscopy for the simultaneous detection of chemotherapeutics and antioxidative status of human skin
✍ Scribed by W. Werncke; I. Latka; S. Sassning; B. Dietzek; M.E. Darvin; M.C. Meinke; J. Popp; K. König; J.W. Fluhr; J. Lademann
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 126 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1612-2011
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✦ Synopsis
Aiming at the development of strategies to prevent the hand-foot-syndrome, we propose to evaluate the amount of chemotherapeutics in the human skin together with carotenoids the latter serving as marker substances for the dermal antioxidative status. This approach is demonstrated by applying twocolor Raman spectroscopy at 785 and 532 nm excitation for selective detection of chemotherapeutics and carotenoids, respectively. Porcine ear skin has proven to be suited as a model for corresponding spectroscopic basic in-vitro investigations.
Raman intensity, arb. units 500 1000 1500
Wavenumber, cm -1 human skin 785 nm human skin 532 nm
Raman spectra of human skin recorded at 10 μm depth with an excitation at 785 and 532 nm, respectively. The Raman lines marked with an originate from carotenoids
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