Reconstitution of Human Skin In Vitro Using Readily Available Sources: Novel Studies of Tumor Promotion

August 1994 in “ Toxicology in Vitro ”

Ajay Verma, Andrew J Shaw

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Studysummary This study standardized a reproducible three-dimensional human skin model for testing skin tumor promoters, using methods that do not require human skin sourcing.

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