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The Three-Dimensional Human Skin Reconstruct Model: a Tool to Study Normal Skin and Melanoma Progression
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The Three-Dimensional Human Skin Reconstruct Model: a Tool to Study Normal Skin and Melanoma Progression

Published on: August 3, 2011

Growth and differentiation of skin

B A Flaxman, P F Maderson

    The Journal of Investigative Dermatology
    |July 1, 1976
    PubMed

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