A team of investigators from the Abuabara Lab at UC San Francisco, UCSF Radiology and the University of Arizona reviewed available literature on skin sodium to investigate its connection to total body sodium and to immunity.
The study, “Sodium in the skin: a summary of the physiology and a scoping review of disease associations,” was published in Clinical and Experimental Dermatology. Aheli Chattopadhyay, a medical student at the UCSF School of Medicine, is the first author, and Katrina Abuabara, MD, of UCSF Dermatology is the senior author. Authors from UCSF Radiology include Michael Ohliger, MD, PhD, and Jeremy Gordon, PhD.
“The collaboration between researchers in the departments of Radiology and Dermatology has been an exciting example of UCSF bringing different specialties together to support innovating patient care,” says Dr. Ohliger.
The team investigated the role…
