Article: Dealing with adult acne

Article: Getting Under Your Skin
The Washington Post;  January 31, 1989 ;     700+ words ......could make you sick. Your skin is water-resistant, so you...the soles of your feet-the skin is about 5 millimeters thick. The skin's outer layer-the part you...epidermis. Melanin determines your skin color, whether you are fair-skinn...different colors is that darker skin has more melanin. ...

Article: SKIN
Young Students Learning Library;      693 words ......and their openings are pores. Hairs grow out of the skin. The roots of the hairs are in the dermis, and the openings in the skin from which hairs grow are called follicles. When the skin is unbroken, it helps keep out harmful bacteria. There is, however, a way bacteria can enter unbroken skin. In ...

Article: Hairy portals for toxic chemicals. (research on chemical absorption through the skin)
Science News;  June 25, 1988 ;     368 words ......affect absorption. Skin does not present...penetrating it are hair follicles, sebaceous glands...affect a chemical's skin-penetrating ability...preferentially deposit at the hair follicles and sebaceous glands...Hall says, that hair follicles and glands can ...

Article: Skin cells reveal they have hairy origins.(Brief Article)
Science News;  August 19, 2000 ;     544 words ......of biologists, hair follicles are the natural birthplaces of skin cells. There may...That cells from hair follicles can produce skin under extreme circumstances...several areas of skin, such as the palms, contain no hair follicles at all. That leads...

Article: M Real Beauty: When your skin has a hangover; As if headaches and nausea weren't enough, too much booze can also play havoc with your skin. Here's how to get that healthy glow back.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England);  March 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ......to suffer from downtrodden skin. The new PMS - pollution...blood to your head, where skin and hair follicles are often starved of the...one. A bit of rough If your skin is looking a little grey...time round because when your skin has a hangover, sometimes...looking for is a really ...

Article: CAN TIGHT-FITTING GARMENS CAUSE SKIN RASHES?
The Boston Globe;  April 10, 2006 ;     258 words ...You bet. Tights, skin-hugging pants, panty hose...folliculitis, an inflammation of hair follicles caused by a bacterium...that is already on the skin and, because of the irritation...rid of pus. If inflamed hair follicles are large, tender, or...

Article: BANK YOUR BODY; LIFEstyle: Freezing your physical assets - from skin to eggs - is a controversial new trend in anti-ageing. So will you invest?
The Daily Mail (London, England);  March 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ......patient's face in the future. Dr Thierry Vidal of London's Skin Health Spa says: 'The technology is not there just yet...using them in an anti-ageing process in later life.' SKIN MAINTAINING baby-soft skin for ever might be a real possibility in the future...CellSpray already uses a sample of the ...

Article: MAN'S HAIR FOLLICLES GROW ON WOMAN'S FOREARM AFTER TRANSPLANT
The Boston Globe;  November 4, 1999 ;     509 words ......they have successfully induced cells from a man's hair follicles to sprout a few hairs on a woman's forearm. "It...associate professor of dermatology and genetics. "Hair follicles have always been thought to be immune privileged...what's called the dermal sheath at the base of the hair ...

Article: Laser microscope peers beneath skin surface without causing damage
Dermatology Times;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......penetrating into the skin? Or are substances...penetrating through the hair follicles? To investigate...cannot use excised skin or skin substitutes...layers and in the hair follicles." Similarly, Dr...their way to the skin. "For such investigations...to measure the ...

Article: Skin stem cells offer cure for baldness
The Northern Echo;  September 3, 2004 ;     195 words ...STEM cells in the skin may offer a treasure trove...the potential to grow new skin, raising the possibility...distinct types of stem cell from hair follicles in the skin of mice. Both reproduced...cultured, they generated hair follicles when grafted onto the skin of ...

Article: Skin cells may harbour baldness cure
The Hindustan Times;  May 17, 2007 ;     340 words ......found that the skin may have the capability...regenerate lost hair follicles from within. Researchers...found that when skin is wounded, epidermal...cells that generate hair follicles and grow new hair...separated patches of skin from the rodents...previously thought ...

Article: SKIN GROWS FAST BUT SO DO UNFORTUNATE SCARS.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  July 18, 1996 ;     647 words ......sweat glands, 50-75 hair follicles and, in total length...tiny blood vessels. Skin is not really a...the donor site. Skin regenerates at the...wound and around the hair follicles, which are lined...because there are no hair follicles,'' Gibran said...and requires a ...

Article: Adults with acne; Disorder is most common skin problem.(LIFE - HEALTH)
The Washington Times;  August 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ......called sebum to protect the skin and keep it lubricated. The sebum reaches the skin's surface through the opening...come to the surface of the skin to become blocked. Once that...acnes, which lives within hair follicles under the skin, she says. The hair follicles ...

Article: Skin deep; The largest organ protects the rest of the body from the sun and dangerous invaders such as environmental pollutants and germs. It is the body's major temperature control.(VARIETY)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  February 11, 2001 ;     515 words ......root. Layers of the skin SUBCUTANEOUS - Fatty...vessels, nerves, hair follicles and lymphatic system...vessels, nerves, hair follicles and lymphatic system...different layers of the skin NEUROTOXIN INJECTION...YAG lasers target hair follicles and stimulate new...time ...