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The epidermis is the outer covering of the skin and consists of several different cell types: keratinocytes, melanocytes, Langerhans cells and Merkel cells. Keratinocytes are the most abundant of the epidermal cells and are organised into distinct layers, as illustrated in Fig. 1a.
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Watt, F.M. (1991). Effect of Culture Environment on Terminal Differentiation of Human Epidermal Keratinocytes. In: Wilson, G., Davis, S.S., Illum, L., Zweibaum, A. (eds) Pharmaceutical Applications of Cell and Tissue Culture to Drug Transport. NATO ASI Series, vol 218. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0286-6_22
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