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Human hair keratin network and curvature
1 Oct 2007
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BACKGROUND: In human hair, very little is known about the substructures relating to the curl pattern. The interpretation of the macroscopic shape of the fiber at the molecular and cellular scales is still unclear. METHODS: A comparative and multiscale study was carried out on a set of human hair samples, ranging in shape from straight to tightly curled, in order to investigate structural elements that might be...
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