title: Chemical and photo-oxidative hair damage studied by dye diffusion and electrophoresis.
abstract: Microspectrophotometric and electrophoretic methods were used to characterize and quantify the effects of primary damage to hair from chemical and photochemical oxidative processes. The diffusion of molecules proceeding from the fiber surface to the center of untreated and modified (by chemical and photochemical oxidative processes) hair fibers was mapped by fluorescence microscopy and quantified by calculating diffusion coefficients of a fluorescent molecule. In addition, an electrophoretic separation technique, namely, SDS-PAGE (sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis), was used not only to substantiate the results obtained in the microfluorometric study, but also to show how the main classes of proteins of unaltered hair are modified by cosmetic chemical treatments, light exposure, and combinations of these two processes. UV microspectrophotometry is an alternate analytical method to evaluate photo-oxidative damage in hair, and supports the results obtained by microfluorometry.
authors.affiliation: TRI/Princeton, 601 Prospect Ave, Princeton, NJ 08542, USA.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Ruetsch
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Y K
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Kamath
mesh_terms: D004058:Diffusion; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006197:Hair; D006801:Humans; D010777:Photochemistry; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet