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By protecting against cutaneous inflammation, epidermal pigmentation provided an additional advantage for ancestral humans

Pigmentation evolved in ancestral humans to protect against toxic, ultraviolet B irradiation, but the question remains: “what is being protected?” Because humans with dark pigmentation display a suite of superior epidermal functions in comparison with their more lightly pigmented counterparts, we hy...

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Autores principales: Lin, Tzu‐Kai, Man, Mao‐Qiang, Abuabara, Katrina, Wakefield, Joan S., Sheu, Hamm‐ming, Tsai, Jui‐chen, Lee, Chih‐Hung, Elias, Peter M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6824065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31700538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.12858