Plucked Human Hair Shafts and Biomolecular Medical Research

The hair follicle is a skin integument at the boundary between an organism and its immediate environment. The biological role of the human hair follicle has lost some of its ancestral importance. However, an indepth investigation of this miniorgan reveals hidden complexity with huge research potenti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kevin Schembri, Christian Scerri, Duncan Ayers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/620531