In people washing forearms with common skin cleansers, the amount of the body's own LL‑37 on the skin surface fell slightly but significantly shortly after washing.
In plain wordsAfter forearm washing with common cleansers, the body's own LL‑37 on the skin dropped slightly for a short time.
- Peptide
- LL-37
- Outcome
- DecreaseLL-37 on the skin surface after washing
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Outcome group
- Immune response · Skin and wound
Source sentences
Despite small but significant decreases in the amount of LL-37 on the skin surface shortly after washing
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In this study, several common skin cleansers were used to wash human forearms and the short-term effect on the abundance of the antimicrobial peptide LL-37 and the abundance and diversity of bacterial DNA was measured.
This result measures the body's own LL-37. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.