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Skin

Known as: Integumental system, Integument, Skin of body 
An organ that constitutes the external surface of the body. It consists of the epidermis, dermis, and skin appendages.
National Institutes of Health

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Angioma serpiginosum, X-linkedAtypical fibroxanthoma of skinBody temperature^in microenvironment:Temp:Pt:Skin:QnCutaneous B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

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Skin of neckSkin structure of philtrumSkin structure of shin

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Using laser microporation to improve transdermal delivery of diclofenac: Increasing bioavailability and the range of therapeutic applications.
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Muscular mitochondrial function in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is progressively altered as the disease develops: A temporal study in man
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Dorsal and ventral myotome motoneurons and their input during fictive locomotion in lamprey
Motoneurons supplying the dorsal and ventral parts of the myotome in the lamprey are shown to have different morphological… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Calcium‐ and length‐dependent force production in rat ventricular muscle
1. Trabeculae from the right ventricles of rat hearts were ‘skinned’ by immersion for 30 min in a solution containing the non… 
Review
1981
Review
1981
The Shope papilloma-carcinoma complex of rabbits: a model system of neoplastic progression and spontaneous regression.
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Dependence of the contractile activation of skinned cardiac cells on the sarcomere length
FRANK1 and Starling2 have demonstrated that the systolic pressure developed by the heart decreased as its diastolic volume was… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Hair loss and cyst formation in hairless and rhino mutant mice
Structural abnormalities begin in the integument of hairless (hrhr), hairless‐rhino (hrhrrh), and rhino (hrrhhrrh) male and… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Measurement of cutaneous blood flow by freely diffusible radioactive isotopes. Methodological studies on the washout of krypton-85 and xenon-133 from the cutaneous tissue in man.
Review
1963
Review
1963
THE DERMAL LIGHT SENSE
1. Dermal light reactions are responses to illumination of the body surface of animals due to stimulation of diffusely… 
Highly Cited
1961
Highly Cited
1961
Electron microscope observations of the integument, flame cells, and gut of Schistosoma mansoni.
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