Epidermal barrier function: Role of tight junctions

Skin Barrier

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 191-210

  Brandner, Johanna M ^a   Proksch, Ehrhardt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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