PMID: 3772150Nov 1, 1986Paper

Hydration characteristics of pathologic stratum corneum--evaluation of bound water

The Journal of Investigative Dermatology
M TakenouchiH Tagami

Abstract

We measured in vitro the hygroscopicity and bound (non-freezing) water of various samples of pathologic horny layer obtained from the lesions of senile xerotic skin and psoriasis vulgaris and the normal horny layer from glabrous skin and plantar horny layer. The amount of water taken up by pathologic stratum corneum was much smaller than that by normal horny layer in an environment at a high relative humidity (RH). Tightly bound primary water to stratum corneum measured by Karl Fischer's method was about 5 mg/100 mg of dry stratum corneum in all the samples studied, while less tightly bound secondary water was much smaller in amount in pathologic stratum corneum than in the controls, i.e., 31.7 mg/100 mg dry scale from senile xerosis and 27.2 mg/100 mg dry psoriatic scale as compared with 38.2 mg/100 mg dry normal stratum corneum from glabrous skin and 37.3 mg/100 mg dry normal plantar stratum corneum. We believe that the low hygroscopicity of the pathologic stratum corneum is due to this smaller capacity for secondary bound water, which is responsible for the development of a dry scaly appearance even at high RH.

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