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It is my intense and outmost pleasure to welcome you to this exciting project on lipids and skin in the form of an academic textbook for the very first time. Although the very first baby steps of lipids and skin together took place about 50 years ago in the laboratories of skin lipid pioneer scientists such as professors Downing, Strauss, and Nicolaides, nowadays it seems that together they could rapidly turn into one of the most emerging and intriguing fields of dermatology, lipid science, and metabolism.
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Pappas, A. (2015). Skin Lipids: An Introduction and Their Importance. In: Pappas, A. (eds) Lipids and Skin Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09943-9_1
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