title: Skin microdialysis: methods, applications and future opportunities — an EAACI position paper creator: Baumann, Katrine Y. creator: Church, Martin K. creator: Clough, Geraldine F. creator: Quist, Sven Roy creator: Schmelz, Martin creator: Skov, Per Stahl creator: Anderson, Chris D. creator: Tannert, Line Kring creator: Giménez-Arnau, Ana Maria creator: Frischbutter, Stefan creator: Scheffel, Jörg creator: Maurer, Marcus subject: ddc-610 subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine description: Skin microdialysis (SMD) is a versatile sampling technique that can be used to recover soluble endogenous and exogenous molecules from the extracellular compartment of human skin. Due to its minimally invasive character, SMD can be applied in both clinical and preclinical settings. Despite being available since the 1990s, the technique has still not reached its full potential use as a tool to explore pathophysiological mechanisms of allergic and inflammatory reactions in the skin. Therefore, an EAACI Task Force on SMD was formed to disseminate knowledge about the technique and its many applications. This position paper from the task force provides an overview of the current use of SMD in the investigation of the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis, chronic urticaria, psoriasis, and in studies of cutaneous events during type 1 hypersensitivity reactions. Furthermore, this paper covers drug hypersensitivity, UVB-induced- and neurogenic inflammation, and drug penetration investigated by SMD. The aim of this paper is to encourage the use of SMD and to make the technique easily accessible by providing an overview of methodology and applications, supported by standardized operating procedures for SMD in vivo and ex vivo. publisher: BioMed Central date: 2019 type: Article type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article type: NonPeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/26343/1/13601_2019_Article_262.pdf identifier: DOI: identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-263437 identifier: Baumann, Katrine Y. ; Church, Martin K. ; Clough, Geraldine F. ; Quist, Sven Roy ; Schmelz, Martin ; Skov, Per Stahl ; Anderson, Chris D. ; Tannert, Line Kring ; Giménez-Arnau, Ana Maria ; Frischbutter, Stefan ; Scheffel, Jörg ; Maurer, Marcus (2019) Skin microdialysis: methods, applications and future opportunities — an EAACI position paper. Clinical and translational allergy, 9 (24). pp. 1-13. ISSN 2045-7022 relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/26343/ rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess rights: Please see front page of the work (Sorry, Dublin Core plugin does not recognise license id) language: eng