Bioengineering of the Skin: Skin Biomechanics, Volume V / Edition 1

by Peter Elsner, Enzo Berardesca, Klaus-Peter Wilhelm

Overview

Since skin forms the interface between the human body and the environment, its mechanical properties are important in health and disease. Bioengineering of the Skin: Skin Biomechanics gives a thorough introduction in the biological basis of skin biomechanics. It explains the non-invasive methods that allow measurement of the mechanical properties of the skin focusing on commercially available instruments.

Written by internationally leading experts in the field of non-invasive measurement technology of the skin, this volume describes the anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, and pathology of skin biomechanics. It explains in detail how to measure skin mechanic properties and how to use these measurements in the development of drugs and cosmetics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367396817
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/07/2019
Series:	Dermatology: Clinical & Basic Science
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Elsner, Enzo Berardesca, Klaus P. Wilhelm, Howard I. Maibach

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: Mechanical Properties of Human Skin: Biomechemical Aspects. Mechanical Properties of Human Skin: Animal Models. Mechanical Properties of Human Skin: Elasticity Parameters and Their Relevance. Mechanical Properties of the Skin During Friction Assessment. ELASTICITY AND VISCOELASTICITY: General Aspects: Hardware and Basic Principles of the Dermal Torque Meter. In Vivo Tensile Tests on Human Skin: The Extensometers. Hardware and Measuring Principles: The Cutometer. Hardware and Measurement Principles: The Gas-bearing Electrodynamometer and Linear Skin Rheometer. Hardware and Measuring Principles: The Dermaflex A. Hardware and Measuring Principles: The DermaLab. Hardware and Measuring Principles: The Dermagraph in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis and in Healthy Volunteers. Hardware and Measuring Principles: The Durometer. Hardware and Measuring Principles: The Ballistometer. Hardware and Measuring Principles: The Microindentometer. Standardization of Skin Biomechanical Measurements. Mapping Mechanical Properties of Human Skin. Skin Mechanics and Hydration. Skin Tensile Strength in Scleroderma. Mechanical Properties in Other Dermatological Diseases. Product Testing: Skin Biomechanics: Antiaging Products. Product Testing: Moisturizers. Antikeloidal Products. Index.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Patricia Wong, MD (Private Practice)
Description: This is an extremely technical, comprehensive discussion on skin biomechanics written at a level that would require an engineering background. Researchers who study diseases such as scleroderma, mucopolysaccharidoses, and cutis laxa may find this book a welcome addition to their library. The chapters exhaustively cover in excruciating detail how to measure the elasticity, tensile strength, collagen, and other skin mechanics. The devices used to make these measurements are schematically diagrammed and explained.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide current information on noninvasive methods to assess skin biomechanics. These goals are met.
Audience: The book is appropriate for skin researchers only. A strong mathematical and engineering background is necessary to understand the information.
Features: The book includes tables of reference values for normal skin distensibility, elasticity, and relaxation; product testing for moisturizers; the parameters one would measure to assess antiaging products, and the measuring principles and components of measuring devices, including the ballistometer, the elastometer, the microindentometer, the cutometer. Some of these devices require computer software to operate. This aspect of utilization is not addressed in the book.
Assessment: Researchers who must evaluate changes in the biomechanical properties of skin would find this book fascinating and very useful — or they may already know most of the information and find it a good reference to look up and confirm facts.

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