Hair Curvature: A Natural Dialectic and Review

    March 2014 in “ Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ”
    J. Nissimov, Amala Chaudhuri
    Studysummary This study introduces the multiple papillary centres model, offering a new explanation for hair twisting by combining known hair morphology features with differential growth rates caused by dermal papillae.
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