While sweat is thought to be one of the important factors provoking exacerbations of clinical
symptoms in atopic dermatitis (AD), little attention has been drawn to a beneficial role of …

Although atopic dry skin is believed to be caused by defects in skin genes important for
maintaining skin barrier function, the role of sweat in atopic dermatitis (AD) has been …

Skin barrier dysfunction is inherent to atopic dermatitis (AD), causing dryness, irritation, and
increased permeability to irritants, allergens and pathogens. Eccrine sweat functions as part …

abstract Sweat is a transparent hypotonic body fluid made from eccrine sweat glands.
Various ingredients contained in sweat are involved in a broad sense in skin homeostasis …

Sweating plays an important role in maintaining temperature homeostasis in humans.
However, under certain circumstances, sweat can cause itching. For example, when …

Although there is a growing acceptance that sweat could play a detrimental role in various
allergic skin diseases, the possibility that sweat is also involved in maintenance of skin …

Background Impaired sweating is thought to be a cause of barrier dysfunction in atopic
dermatitis (AD). Objectives To examine the sweating function in AD in a quantitative manner …

abstract We have reported characteristic cutaneous manifestations of Sjögren syndrome
(SS) with special references to autoimmune anhidrosis or hypoidrosis and related …

Background: The etiology of the nonlesional dry and barrier-disrupted skin of patients with
atopic dermatitis (AD) is still unclear. Objective: To determine whether disrupted barrier …

OBJECTIVE: Dermcidin (DCD)-derived peptide is an antimicrobial peptide produced by the
sweat glands. However, the levels of DCD-derived peptide in sweat were decreased in …