Horizontal and vertical pigment spread into surrounding piebald epidermis and hair follicles after suction blister epidermal grafting

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 175-180

  Horikawa, Tatsuya ^a   Mishima, Yutaka ^b,c   Nishino, Keisuke ^a   Ichihashi, Masamitsu ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mishima Institute for Dermatological Research   (Japan)

^c Mishima Dermatological Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Melanocytes; Pigment; Vitiligo lesions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; EPIDERMIS; HAIR FOLLICLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOCYTE; METABOLISM; PIEBALDISM; PIGMENTATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TIME; VITILIGO;

EPIDERMIS; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PIEBALDISM; PIGMENTATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TIME FACTORS; VITILIGO;

EID: 0033145547     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1999.tb00510.x     Document Type: Article

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