Female hairless, nonpigmented mice (Crl:Skh1- Hrhr/Hrhr), referred herein as SKH:HR-1 mice, were a gift from Tzu-Kai Lin, M.D. (Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), who obtained them from Charles River Laboratories (Wilmington, MA). SKH:HR-1 mice with the hr hypomorphic allele, are widely used as a substitute for human skin to measure percutaneous drug penetration, UVR irradiation damage, and wound healing.
Human keratinocyte HaCaT cells were a gift from Professor Hamm-Ming Sheu (Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan). The cells were cultured in DMEM (Gibco, NY, USA) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (Gibco, NY, USA), 5% CO2 at 37 °C. Human monocyte THP-1 cells (BCRC #60,430) were obtain from the cell bank of Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC).