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Regional and age-related properties of human skin dermis relative to the thickness of collagen bundles

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Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, No. 6, pp. 1100–1104, November–December, 1979.

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Vinogradova, E.V., Mikhailov, I.N. Regional and age-related properties of human skin dermis relative to the thickness of collagen bundles. Mech Compos Mater 15, 767–770 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00605427

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