What lives on our skin: Ecology, genomics and therapeutic opportunities of the skin microbiome

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Mechanisms

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages

  Scharschmidt, Tiffany C ^a   Fischbach, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 17;

APOCRINE GLAND; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM AMYCOLATUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM MINUTISSIMUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM; DERMATITIS; DERMATOLOGY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PROPIONIBACTERIUM GRANULOSUM; REVIEW; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEBUM; SKIN FLORA; SKIN FUNCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STRATUM CORNEUM; SWEAT GLAND;

EID: 84886091355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17406765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmec.2012.12.003     Document Type: Review

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