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Local structure of human hair spatially resolved by sub-micron X-ray beam

Human hair has three main regions, the medulla, the cortex, and the cuticle. An existing model for the cortex suggests that the α-keratin- based intermediate filaments (IFs) align with the hair’s axis, but are orientationally disordered in-plane. We found that there is a new region in the cortex nea...

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Published in:Sci Rep
Main Authors: Stanić, Vesna, Bettini, Jefferson, Montoro, Fabiano Emmanuel, Stein, Aaron, Evans-Lutterodt, Kenneth
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4663634/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26617337
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep17347
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