Epidemiology of skin barrier function: Host and environmental factors

Dermatologic, Cosmeceutic, and Cosmetic Development: Therapeutic and Novel Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 129-156

  Hillebrand, Greg G ^a   Randall Wickett, R ^b  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

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