Characterization of Hair Lipid Images by Argon Sputter Etching-Scanning Electron Microscopy

From: Lipids | Date: February 1, 2006| Author: Imokawa, Genji; Mamada, Akira; Tanamachi, Hiroto; Tsujimura, Hisashi; Masukawa, Yoshinori | Copyright information

ABSTRACT: Hair lipid images, as visualized by argon sputter etching-scanning electron microscopy (ASE-SEM), reveal convex structures with a stitch pattern (SP) at the cell membrane complex (CMC) in the transverse hair plane. Based on interindividual variation, different features of the convex SP were classified into Types O to 4 with the corresponding scores O to 4. Observations using hair fibers collected from 27 Japanese females revealed significant positive correlations between the scores ...

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