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Sebum Production

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Sebum produced by sebaceous glands is progressively altered during its transit in the sebaceous duct. Sebaceous gland dynamics involves four successive features including sebum productive and storage, sebum delivery at the skin surface, and the sebum resorption by the stratum corneum. The excretion rate at the skin surface is indeed different from the secretion rate by the gland. The skin microbiome is globally influenced by sebum that promotes anaerobic and lipophilic microorganisms. The lipid composition of sebum exerts profound influences on epithelial tissues.

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  1. Laboratory of Skin Bioengineering and Imaging, Department of Dermatopathology, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium

    Claudine Piérard-Franchimont, Justine Courtois, Caroline Ritacco & Gérald E. Piérard

  2. Department of Dermatology, Unilab Lg, Regional Hospital Citadelle, Liège, Belgium

    Marianne Lesuisse

  3. Department of Dermatology, Regional Hospital of Huy, Huy, Belgium

    Claudine Piérard-Franchimont & Marianne Lesuisse

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  1. Winton Hill Business Center, The Procter & Gamble Company , Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Miranda A. Farage

  2. Margoshes-Miller Consulting, LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Kenneth W. Miller

  3. Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

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Piérard-Franchimont, C., Lesuisse, M., Courtois, J., Ritacco, C., Piérard, G.E. (2017). Sebum Production. In: Farage, M., Miller, K., Maibach, H. (eds) Textbook of Aging Skin. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47398-6_33

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