Surface Lipids as Multifunctional Mediators of Skin Responses to Environmental Stimuli

<table>Analysis of skin surface lipid (SSL) fractions of human samples (pooled extracts of 30 healthy individuals) and of non-human primates (from 1 to 5 pooled individuals in each sample) performed by Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) with double-solvent system resolution. The effective chemical characterization of each lipid fraction was checked by Gas Chromatography—Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis (<i>for quantitative results see</i> Table <a href="tab1/">1</a>).</table>

Mediators of Inflammation

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Figure 2: Surface Lipids as Multifunctional Mediators of Skin Responses to Environmental Stimuli 