Skin of color: Biology, structure, function, and implications for dermatologic disease

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 46, Issue 2 III, 2002, Pages

  Taylor, Susan C ^a,b  

^a St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital ^*

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRRITANT AGENT; MELANIN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALOPECIA; APOCRINE GLAND; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BLEACHING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CELL SIZE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDERMIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FIBROBLAST; HAIR DISEASE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; KELOID; MELANOSOME; PHOTOAGING; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SEBACEOUS GLAND; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN STRUCTURE; STRATUM CORNEUM; SWEAT GLAND; CHEMISTRY; ETHNIC GROUP; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RACE; SKIN; UNITED STATES;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; MELANINS; MELANOSOMES; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; SEBACEOUS GLANDS; SKIN; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SWEAT GLANDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 12444252317     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mjd.2002.120790     Document Type: Article

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