Epidermal innervation correlates with severity of photodamage. A quantitative ultrastructural study

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 260-266

  Toyoda, M ^a   Hara, M ^a   Bhawan, J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Innervation; Intraepidermal nerve fiber; Keratinocyte; Photoaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; PHOTODERMATOSIS; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN NERVE; SUN EXPOSURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0029831277     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.1996.tb00127.x     Document Type: Article

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