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January 2009 in “Elsevier eBooks” The skin has multiple layers and cells, serves as a protective barrier, helps regulate temperature, enables sensation, affects appearance, and is involved in vitamin D synthesis.
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Deleting Smad4 and PTEN genes in mice causes rapid, invasive forestomach cancer.