'Fish matters': The relevance of fish skin biology to investigative dermatology

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 313-324

  Rakers, Sebastian ^a   Gebert, Marina ^a   Uppalapati, Sai ^b   Meyer, Wilfried ^c   Maderson, Paul ^d   Sell, Anne F ^e   Kruse, Charli ^a   Paus, Ralf ^b,f  

^a Fraunhofer Institute for Marine Biotechnology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e INSTITUT FÜR SEEFISCHEREI   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial defense; Epidermis; Fish skin; Fish stem cells; Mucus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDERMIS; EVOLUTION; FISH; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MICROBIAL IMMUNITY; MUCUS SECRETION; NONHUMAN; SKIN FUNCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; TISSUE REGENERATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DERMATOLOGY; FISHES; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 77951747521     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2009.01059.x     Document Type: Article

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