Abstract
Skin is formed by cell division, and the cells eventually mature into corneums and drop off. This process is known as turnover. With normal turnover, skin disease rarely occurs. However, the disturbance of turnover leads to skin inflammation and associated effects such as scale formation. The mechanisms that underpin scale formation are not fully understood. This study analyses the impact of scale formation in atopic dermatitis using a numerical simulation. The numerical simulation model of the skin was constructed by theoretically setting the main parameters i.e. transepidermal water loss (henceforth TEWL) of atopic dermatitis, thereby allowing the elucidation of the mechanism of scale formation. As a result, thick corneum and scale of atopic dermatitis were successfully modeled. In addition, the variation of desmosome distribution in stratum corneum was shown to be associated with scale formation.
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