Authors: Sam S. Lee, Evan Sweren, Erika Dare, Paige Derr, Kristy Derr, Chen Chia Wang, Brooke Hardesty, Aiden A. Willis, Junjie Chen, Jonathan K. Vuillier, Joseph Du, Julia Wool, Amanda Ruci, Vicky Y. Wang, Chaewon Lee, Sampada Iyengar, Soichiro Asami, Maria Daskam, Claudia Lee, Jeremy C. Lee, Darren Cho, Joshua Kim, Eddie Gibson Martinez-Peña, So Min Lee, Xu He, Michael Wakeman, Iralde Sicilia, Dalhart T. Dobbs, Amy van Ee, Ang Li, Yingchao Xue, Kaitlin L. Williams, Charles S. Kirby, Dongwon Kim, Sooah Kim, Lillian Xu, Ruizhi Wang, Marc Ferrer, Yun Chen, Jin U. Kang, Reza Kalhor, Sewon Kang, Luis A. Garza
Published: 2024-09-05
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Skin identity is controlled by intrinsic features of the epidermis and dermis and their interactions. Modifying skin identity has clinical potential, such as the conversion of residual limb and stump (nonvolar) skin of amputees to pressure-responsive palmoplantar (volar) skin to enhance prosthesis use and minimize skin breakdown. Greater keratin 9 (