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December 11, 2015

Evaluation of Cutaneous Damage and Repair Following Acute Solar Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure: Experiments with an In Vitro Reconstructed Human Skin Model and Excised Human Skin

Overexposure of human skin to solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is known to produce deleterious effects including cutaneous photoaging and cancers. The present studies were conducted to confirm the utility of a commercially available full-thickness reconstructed human skin model (EpiDermFT) for... Read More
December 11, 2015

NOVEL SILK FIBROIN/ELASTIN WOUND DRESSINGS.

Silk fibroin (SF) and elastin (EL) scaffolds were successfully produced for the first time for the treatment of burn wounds. The self-assembly properties of SF, together with the excellent chemical and mechanical stability and biocompatibility, were combined with elastin protein... Read More
December 11, 2015

POMEGRANATE DERIVED PRODUCTS FOR CANCER CHEMOPREVENTION.

This study by researchers in the University of Wisconsin’s Dept. of Dermatology used MatTek’s EpiDermFT full-thickness in vitro 3-D human skin tissue equivalent because it “sustains differentiation and exhibits morphological and metabolic properties similar to human skin”, to demonstrate the... Read More