... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Mechanical properties Basement membrane Dermis Vessel...

...G.E. Piérard Mechanical properties of skin that are representative of mobility of dermal proteoglycans were determined in vivo. Two techniques are described and compared with each other. 20 01 1982 16 01 1983 13 10 2009 © 1984 S. Karger AG, Basel 1984 Copyright / Drug...

...Gérald E. Piérard We report a combined method using histology and determination of mechanical properties of skin allowing the grading of cutaneous sclerosis in morphea and acroscleroderma. Four parameters appeared useful, i.e. the evaluation of the skin thickness and of the fibrocyte density...

...C. Piérard-Franchimont; F. Henry; J.M. Crielaard; G.E. Piérard A Cutometer® was used to measure the mechanical properties of skin in 8 adult bodybuilders who were recombinant human growth hormone (hGH) abusers. Although skin deformability and biological elasticity remained within the normal range...

... with diabetes mellitus. Such noninvasive biometrological evaluations could be used for monitoring, rating and correlating some diabetes-associated disorders. Aging Diabetes Elasticity Mechanical properties Ultrasound 27 01 1995 22 04 1995 7 10 2009 © 1996 S. Karger AG, Basel...

...G.E. Piérard; N. Nikkels-Tassoudji; C. Piérard-Franchimont Background : New advances in bioengineering have provided commercially available devices for measuring the mechanical properties of skin in vivo. Reproducibility of data and methodological approaches have not yet been thoroughly studied...

...E. Guan; Sarah Smilow; Miriam Rafailovich; Jonathan Sokolov Background: Accurate measurement of the mechanical properties of skin has numerous implications in surgical repair, dermal disorders and the diagnosis and treatment of trauma to the skin. Investigation of facial wrinkle formation, as well...

... for the reverse. The present data suggest that the skin envelope is more increased in area than in thickness. Thus, the skin increases in size to a greater extent than needed to simply cover the volume of the underlying bones, muscles and subcutaneous tissues. Acromegaly Dermis Mechanical properties...