Correction: Newborn Boys and Girls Differ in the Lipid Composition of Vernix Caseosa
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There are errors in the Funding Statement. The correct funding is as follows: ‘‘Funding for this project was provided by Czech Science Foundation (Project No. 206/12/0750), Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Project RVO 61388963) and Charles University in Prague (Project SVV 260084). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.’’
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Newborn Boys and Girls Differ in the Lipid Composition of Vernix Caseosa
Vernix caseosa protects the skin of a human fetus during the last trimester of pregnancy and of a newborn after the delivery. Besides its cellular and proteinaceous components, an important constituent and functional agent is a complex lipid fraction, implicated in a multitude of salubrious effects of vernix caseosa. Little is known about how the chemical composition of vernix caseosa lipids is...
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