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Protection Against UV Light

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The mechanical parameters’ skin thickness, ultimate strain, ultimate load, tensile strength, and modulus of elasticity were used to evaluate the effects of UV irradiation and the prevention of skin damage in hairless mice (Alpermann and Vogel 1978; Vogel et al. 1981).

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Maibach, H. (2015). Protection Against UV Light. In: Hock, F. (eds) Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Pharmacological Assays. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27728-3_107-1

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