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Dermatology

Epistem draws on its considerable expertise in the epithelial biology field to provide a range of specialist dermatology research services for personal care, cosmetic and pharmaceutical product development.

Epistem also specialises in analysing, using immunohistochemistry, ELISA and gene expression, a range of skin markers (e.g. for differentiation, proliferation, UV protection and anti-ageing) on skin biopsies from 'claims support' human volunteer studies.

Epistem has access to a variety of human skin types and offers expertise and services in the following key areas:

In vitro Skin Models

Human skin equivalent

Human skin organ culture (skin explant assay)

UV photo damage assay

Skin stem cell assay

Monolayer primary cultures

Skin toxicity

Human Skin Xenografting

Angiogenesis model

Skin graft rejection model

Skin toxicity

Wound Healing

In vitro wound healing assays (including high throughput systems)

Rate of healing models

Anti-scarring models