Scanning electron microscopic evaluation of the skin surface after ultrasound exposure

Anatomical Record

Volumn 247, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 455-461

  Yamashita, Nobuya ^a   Tachibana, Katsuro ^a   Ogawa, Koichi ^a   Tsujita, Naotaka ^a   Tomita, Akira ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

hairless mouse; human skin; scanning electron microscopy; stratum corneum; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG PENETRATION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRRADIATION; KERATINOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN SURFACE; STRATUM CORNEUM; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED HRS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SKIN; ULTRASONICS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030941202     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199704)247:4<455::AID-AR3>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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