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Stratum Corneum Thickness and Apparent Water Diffusivity: Facile and Noninvasive Quantitation In Vivo

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  1. Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche et d'Enseignement, "Pharma-peptides,”, Pare d'Affaires International, F-74166, Archamps, France

    Fabrice Pirot, Yogeshvar N. Kalia & Richard H. Guy

  2. Laboratoire de Recherche et de Développement de Pharmacie Galénique Industrielle, Université Claude Bernard-Lyon I, 69373, Lyon Cedex 08, France

    Fabrice Pirot

  3. Department of Dermatology, University of Parma, IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo, Pavia, Italy

    Enzo Berardesca

  4. Faculté des Sciences—Section de Pharmacie, Laboratoire de Pharmacie Galénique, Université de Genève, CH-1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Yogeshvar N. Kalia & Richard H. Guy

  5. Department of Dermatology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94143

    Malkiat Singh, Howard I. Maibach & Richard H. Guy

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Pirot, F., Berardesca, E., Kalia, Y.N. et al. Stratum Corneum Thickness and Apparent Water Diffusivity: Facile and Noninvasive Quantitation In Vivo. Pharm Res 15, 492–494 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011996903513

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