Characteristics of the functional state of the skin of humans in an enclosed environment with limited space
Berlin, A.A.
Kosmicheskaia Biologiia i Aviakosmicheskaia Meditsina 24(2): 51-54
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0321-5040 PMID: 1973203 Document Number: 362484
Changes in man's skin that may influence its protective function were investigated depending on the environmental conditions. Man's exposure to a small sealed environment produced serious changes in the skin. As a result of 90-day enclosure, the desquamation rate and lipid concentration in the skin almost doubled, pH increased by unity, and its biological activity expressed by the redox potential (eH) diminished by nearly 100%. Thus the protective function of man's skin declined significantly after such exposure.