Automatic colorimetric calibration of human wounds.

Background: Recently, digital photography in medicine is considered an acceptable tool in many clinical domains, e.g. wound care.

Method to measure force required to remove Pediculus humanus capitis (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) eggs from human hair.

Head lice are very common and mainly affect children between 3 and 12 yr old. Little is known about the way nits, the eggs of the head louse, are attached to the hair. In this report, an objective measurement procedure for the ease with which nits can be removed is presented.

Double-blind placebo-controlled study of autologous transplanted epidermal cell suspensions for repigmenting vitiligo.

Objectives: To investigate the efficacy of epidermal noncultured cellular grafting in patients with vitiligo and the role of postinflammatory, spontaneous, or UV-induced pigmentation in obtaining repigmentation.

Design: A prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

Setting: Ambulatory patients in an institutional practice.

Colocalization of dynactin subunits P150Glued and P50 with melanosomes in normal human melanocytes.

Melanocytic dendrites consist of a central core of microtubules (MT) and a subcortical actin network. In previous reports we showed the presence of MT-associated motor proteins kinesin and cytoplasmic dynein on the melanosomal surface, forming a link with MT (Vancoillie et al. J Invest Dermatol 2000;114:421-429; Vancoillie et al.