PMID: 6165783Jun 1, 1981Paper

Exchange of macromolecules between plasma and skin interstitium in extensive skin disease

The Journal of Investigative Dermatology
A M Worm

Abstract

The concentrations of albumin, transferrin, IgG and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in serum (C8) and in blister fluid (Cb) from lesional skin obtained by suction in 11 patients with extensive skin disease. The results were compared with those of 10 matched control subjects. In the patients the Cb/C8 ratios and the distribution ratios (i.e., intravascular to total masses) of the 4 proteins and that of inulin were correlated to the corresponding molecular weights. The distribution ratios of the proteins were calculated from plasma volume (PV), C8, Cb and extracellular fluid volume (ECV) determined with inulin, and that of inulin as PV/ECV. The distribution ratio of albumin was similar to that obtained from a long-term metabolic turnover study. It is concluded that the sieving properties of the dermal vascular endothelium is maintained during suction also in patients with extensive skin disease and that the blister fluid equals "average" interstitial fluid. The transcapillary escape rate (TER) of albumin and IgG (i.e., fractions of intravascular masses of albumin and IgG passing to the extravascular space per unit time) and the accumulation rate of i.v. injected 131I human serum albumin and 125I-IgG in the blister fluid was s...Continue Reading

Citations

Aug 1, 1983·Clinical Physiology·B StabergN Rossing
Apr 27, 2007·The British Journal of Dermatology·S Hern, P S Mortimer
Nov 1, 1983·Contact Dermatitis·A M WormK Thomsen
Nov 25, 2003·Photochemistry and Photobiology·Kirstin M SüdelStefan Gallinat
Jun 25, 2019·The Journal of Clinical Investigation·Laura KähäriMarko Salmi

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