Stella Hofmeyer, Frank Weber, Sandra Gerds, Steffen Emmert, Alexander Thiem
{"title":"A Prospective Randomized Controlled Pilot Study to Assess the Response and Tolerability of Cold Atmospheric Plasma for Rosacea.","authors":"Stella Hofmeyer, Frank Weber, Sandra Gerds, Steffen Emmert, Alexander Thiem","doi":"10.1159/000533190","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000533190","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Rosacea is a common, facial, chronic inflammatory skin disease. Due to its complex pathogenesis, adequate therapy of rosacea can be challenging. An innovative recent therapeutic tool is cold atmospheric plasma (CAP), which is already established in the treatment of chronic wounds and promising in different other skin diseases.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a split-face pilot study we investigated dielectric-barrier-discharged CAP in erythemato-telangiectatic (ETR) and/or papulopustular rosacea (PPR). CAP treatment was applied on lesional skin of a randomized side once daily (90 s/area) for 6 weeks. The other untreated side served as control. Co-primary endpoints were ≥1 improvement of the Investigator Global Assessment (IGA) score on the treated side compared to control and a decline of the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) after 6 weeks. Secondary endpoints included inflammatory lesion count (papules and pustules), skin redness intensity and erythema size. Adverse events (AEs) were recorded constantly. Additionally, participants were weekly assessed for symptoms, skin condition, trigger factors, skin care, treatment success, and local tolerance parameters. All p values were calculated using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twelve subjects (ETR, n = 3; ETR and PPR, n = 9) completed the study. DLQI was significantly improved after 6 weeks (p = 0.007). On the CAP-treated side, lesions (p = 0.007) and erythema size (p = 0.041) were significantly reduced compared to the control. IGA (p = 0.2) and skin redness intensity (p = 0.5) did not differ significantly between control and CAP-treated side. No serious AEs occurred and treatment was well tolerated.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>CAP is a promising new treatment of rosacea, especially for PPR.</p>","PeriodicalId":21748,"journal":{"name":"Skin Pharmacology and Physiology","volume":" ","pages":"205-213"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10652650/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9861438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mily Constanza Moreno Ramos, Maria Valeria Robles Velasco, Mariana Bueno, Maria de La Ó Ramallo Veríssimo
{"title":"Effects of Liquid and Bar Soaps on the Skin of Brazilian Newborns: A Randomized Controlled Trial.","authors":"Mily Constanza Moreno Ramos, Maria Valeria Robles Velasco, Mariana Bueno, Maria de La Ó Ramallo Veríssimo","doi":"10.1159/000536066","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000536066","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Compared to adults, newborns' skin has a thinner epidermis and stratum corneum with decreased hydration levels, higher transepidermal water loss, and a pH variation between 5.5 and 7.5. These characteristics can predispose to the occurrence of dryness, infections, and dermatological conditions. Water and liquid soap with adequate formulation have shown to be beneficial and safe for newborns' skin. However, studies evaluating the effect of bar soap, products widely used in Brazil and Latin America, are unknown. Therefore, the objective of this study was to compare the effects of liquid and bar soaps on the term newborns' skin.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This randomized controlled, parallel, single-blind clinical trial was conducted at a public university hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. 100 healthy term newborns with no congenital anomalies, acute diseases, or dermatological conditions were randomized to use liquid soap (experimental group) or bar soap (control group). Skin pH, transepidermal water loss, stratum corneum hydration, sebum content, and skin condition were assessed before and after the first bath, at 48 h, 14 days, and 28 days after birth. These evaluations were performed on the forearm, abdomen, buttocks, and thigh. In addition, the mother's perception of soap use was also evaluated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Data of 100 newborns were analyzed by intention to treat. The rate of retention was 53%. Newborns exposed to the liquid soap presented significantly better skin acidification (p < 0.001) and significantly better stratum corneum hydration (p < 0.001) than the skin of newborns exposed to the bar soap, regardless of the area evaluated. There were no significant differences in transepidermal water loss, sebum content, dryness, erythema, or skin breakdown and the mother's perceptions of the use of the soaps.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Newborns in the experimental group presented better skin acidification and stratum corneum hydration when compared to newborns in the control group.</p>","PeriodicalId":21748,"journal":{"name":"Skin Pharmacology and Physiology","volume":" ","pages":"267-277"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139542908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catharina Braren-von Stülpnagel, Matthias Augustin, Rachel Sommer, Lukas Westphal
{"title":"Psychosocial Burden in People with Atopic Dermatitis: Effects of a Substance-Free Basic Skincare in a Randomized Health Care Study.","authors":"Catharina Braren-von Stülpnagel, Matthias Augustin, Rachel Sommer, Lukas Westphal","doi":"10.1159/000536671","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000536671","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a physical, emotional, and social burden for patients. Most suffer from itching, pain, and dry skin as well as sleep disturbances, experienced stigmatization, anxiety, or depression. Therefore, it is important to consider the psychosocial well-being and also stigmatization in the treatment of people with AD. The aims of this study were to compare clinical and psychosocial parameters between patients with a different severity of AD and to analyse the effect of an omega-6-fatty-acid-skin therapy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Adult patients with clinically confirmed AD were asked about quality of life, stigmatization, and well-being after dermatological diagnosis. A second examination took place after 2-5 weeks. Meanwhile, after randomization, half of the patients used an omega-6-fatty-acid-skin therapy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Seventy-nine patients were included in the study. The use of omega-6-fatty-acid-skin therapy resulted in a significant reduction in the severity of xerosis cutis compared to patients using another basic therapy. In addition, the health-related quality of life of all patients improved significantly in both groups (F = 7.56; p = 0.008), and no significant difference was found between the groups over time in the patient-reported outcomes.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Basic therapy for AD leads to relevant improvements in clinical status as well as quality of life. Patients using omega-6-fatty-acid-skin therapy experience greater improvement in xerosis cutis compared to free-choice basic therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":21748,"journal":{"name":"Skin Pharmacology and Physiology","volume":" ","pages":"296-301"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139703367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bor Hrvatin Stancic, Jurr Boer, Mateja Dolenc-Voljč, Gregor B E Jemec
{"title":"The Role of Intra-Follicular Shear Forces in Hidradenitis Suppurativa.","authors":"Bor Hrvatin Stancic, Jurr Boer, Mateja Dolenc-Voljč, Gregor B E Jemec","doi":"10.1159/000536067","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000536067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21748,"journal":{"name":"Skin Pharmacology and Physiology","volume":" ","pages":"302-303"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139098634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linoleate-Containing Acylglucosylceramide, Acylceramide, and Events Associated with Formation of the Epidermal Permeability Barrier.","authors":"Philip W Wertz","doi":"10.1159/000535049","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000535049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Linoleate-containing acylglucosylceramide (GLC-CER[EOx], where x = sphingosine [S], dihydrosphingosine [dS], phytosphingosine (P), or 6-hydroxysphingosine [H]) in the viable epidermis serve as the precursors to the linoleate-containing acylceramides (CER[EOx]) in the stratum corneum (SC) and the corneocyte lipid envelope (CLE), both of which are essential for the barrier function of the skin.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>CLE formation and envelope maturation take place across the SC. Hypoxic conditions in the epidermis and anaerobic glycolysis with the production of lactic acid are important in proper SC barrier formation.</p><p><strong>Key message: </strong>CLE formation takes place across the SC. Its formation from linoleate-containing GLC-CER[EOx] requires lipoxygenase action, but anaerobic conditions leading to lactate production and hypoxia-inducible factors are essential for proper barrier formation. A number of unanswered questions are raised regarding formation of the CLE and the epidermal permeability barrier.</p>","PeriodicalId":21748,"journal":{"name":"Skin Pharmacology and Physiology","volume":" ","pages":"225-234"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138462553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgement to the Reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1159/000527772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000527772","url":null,"abstract":"<br />Skin Pharmacol Physiol 2022;35:354","PeriodicalId":21748,"journal":{"name":"Skin Pharmacology and Physiology","volume":"127 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Front & Back Matter","authors":"J. Fluhr, M. Lane","doi":"10.1159/000528667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000528667","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21748,"journal":{"name":"Skin Pharmacology and Physiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44620030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contents Vol. 35, 2022","authors":"J. Fluhr","doi":"10.1159/000528054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000528054","url":null,"abstract":"Nihal Ahmad – University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA Christina Antoniou – University of Athens, Athens, Greece Jens Malte Baron – RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Enzo Berardesca – San Gallicano Dermatological Institute, Rome, Italy Nicole K. Brogden – College of Pharmacy Building, Iowa City, USA Razvigor Darlenski – Trakia University Stara Zagora, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria Kristien De Paepe – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium Sandrine Dubrac – Universitätsklinik für Dermatologie, Venerologie und Allergologie, Innsbruck, Austria Peter Elsner – Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany Arpad Farkas – Hautarztpraxis Glattbrugg, Glattbrugg, Switzerland Natalie Garcia Bartels – Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany Richard H. Guy – University of Bath, Bath, UK Gregor B.E. Jemec – Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark Helena Kandárová – MatTek Corporation, Ashland, MA, USA Cornelia M. Keck – Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany Joachim Kresken – GD Gesellschaft für Dermopharmazie e.V., Cologne, Germany Jean Krutmann – Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany Journal of Pharmacological and Biophysical Research","PeriodicalId":21748,"journal":{"name":"Skin Pharmacology and Physiology","volume":"35 1","pages":"I - IV"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46434863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Front & Back Matter","authors":"J. Fluhr","doi":"10.1159/000527134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000527134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21748,"journal":{"name":"Skin Pharmacology and Physiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49482267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}