The Caucasian and African skin types differ morphologically and functionally in their dermal component

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 704-711

  Girardeau, Sarah ^a   Mine, Solène ^a   Pageon, Hervé ^a   Asselineau, Daniel ^a  

^a L ORÉAL RECHERCHE   (France)

Author keywords

Dermal epidermal junction; Ethnicity; Fibroblasts; Skin

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CYTOKINE; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CELL INTERACTION; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; ELASTIC FIBER; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETICULUM CELL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN STRUCTURE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 70449484527     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2009.00843.x     Document Type: Article

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