Prenatal Hair Development: Implications for Drug Exposure Determination

    January 2010 in “ Forensic science international ”
    Joey Gareri, Gideon Koren
    Studysummary This review discusses fetal hair follicle development and its importance for determining in utero drug exposure through neonatal hair, but it reports no new clinical results.
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