Postnatal changes and sexual dimorphism in collagen expression in mouse skin.

To investigate sexual dimorphism and postnatal changes in skin collagen expression, mRNA levels of collagens and their regulatory factors in male and female skin were examined during the first 120 days of age by quantitative realtime PCR. Levels of mRNAs encoding extracellular matrices did not show...

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Main Authors: Koji Y Arai, Takuya Hara, Toyofumi Nagatsuka, Chikako Kudo, Sho Tsuchiya, Yoshihiro Nomura, Toshio Nishiyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5426772?pdf=render