A NONINVASIVE METHOD FOR MEASURING ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES FROM SKIN AS AN OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT OF NATURAL PROTECTION FROM MICROBES

• Main Authors: FIENO, Angela Marie, SUN, Yiping, MILLS, Kevin, John, GRANT, Raymond, Alan, CHAUDHARY, Tanuja, KERR, Kathleen Marie
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 26.06.2019
• Subjects: INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; PHYSICS; TESTING

A noninvasive method for measuring dandruff in a subject comprising collecting an epithelial cell /skin cell sample from the subject; detecting a level of an antimicrobial peptide biomarkers being human beta-defensin-2 (hBD-2 in the epithelial cell sample/skin cell sample; diagnosing the subject as...