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Acantholysis through washing powder enzymes

The Effect of Proteolytic Washing Powder Enzymes on Surviving Skin

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As long as at least some of the horny layer was preserved, the effect of a washing powder with a proteolytic enzyme on surviving skin and of a proteolytic washing powder enzyme (alcalase) was virtually not different from that of comparable solutions without enzymes. However, if the horny layer was completely removed to the granular layer before incubation, the proteolytic enzymes—especially in washing powder—induced an acantholysis-like decomposition of the epidermis. The control solutions did not produce this effect.

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Ein Waschmittel mit proteolytischem Enzym und ein proteolytisches Waschmittelenzym (Alkalase) allein übten auf überlebende Haut im Vergleich zu Kontrollösungen keine signifikant verschiedene Wirkung aus, solange die Hornschicht ganz oder teilweise erhalten war. Hingegen kam es unter der Enzymwirkung, besonders unter dem enzymhaltigen Waschmittel, zu einer akantholyseartigen Auflösung der Epidermis (Abb.1 und 2), falls die Hornschicht vor der Inkubation insgesamt entfernt wurde, d.h. bis zum Stratum granulosum. Bei den Kontrollösungen blieb die Akantholyse aus.

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Steigleder, G.K. Acantholysis through washing powder enzymes. Arch. Derm. Forsch. 246, 155–158 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00595534

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