Advances in Biology of Skin: Wound Healing v. 5

Montagna, William

Elsevier

This book is the first to concentrate on the structure and function of black skin. There are some physiological and structural differences between black and white skin; an area of intense interest is that of differences in response to sunlight and other damaging agents. An understanding of response to damaging agents is central to the problems of preventing or forestalling the early effects of aging in skin (a goal that is responsible for the current expansion in dermatological research). This book provides a concise multi-disciplinary insight into the biology, physiology, and chemistry of black skin. Primary emphasis is on the nature and origin of the pigmentary color and how this is related to specific properties of black skin, such as photoprotection and low incidence of skin cancers, that are lacking in white skin. Other topics covered include dermatology and cosmetics of black skin from a practical viewpoint of skin care and current treatments of pigmentary disorders. Black Skin is accessible to a broad range of readers from graduate students to specialists in physical anthropology, skin biology, dermatology, and cosmetology, as well as medical practitioners.Explains the molecular basis of racial color differences and the chemistry of melaninCovers the biologic uniqueness of black skin, including: Lack of elastosis in young skin; Keloid formationIncludes pigmentary disorders of black skinAddresses the cosmetics of black skin

Black Skin: Structure and Function

Science & Math

Prota, Giuseppe

Kenney Jr., John A.

Biological Sciences

Academic Press

<p>Third Edition is devoted to all matters pertaining to the structure and function of the skin. Drawing upon the accumulated data derived from embryology, histology, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology, this book presents an overview of skin, with emphasis on human skin.</p>

The Structure and Function of Skin

Harrison, Richard J.

PRENTICE/HALL

<p>Features skin samples from women, men, children, &amp; fetuses of all different races &amp; ages...a fully illustrated manual of the intracacies of nonpathological skin histology.</p>

Atlas of Normal Human Skin

Kligman, Albert M.

Carlisle, Kay S.

Springer

Harrison, Richard John

Appleton, Century, Crofts

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