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. 2011 Apr;3(4):a005124. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a005124

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

Heterogeneity of dermal ECM. Adult human and mouse skin stained with Herovici’s picropolychrome stain. Highly cross-linked collagen in the reticular dermis (RD) stains purple, whereas collagen in the papillary dermis (PD) stains blue. The papillary dermis is thinner in mouse than human skin. Scale bar: 100 µm.