Water-induced finger wrinkles do not affect touch acuity or dexterity in handling wet objects.
Human non-hairy (glabrous) skin of the fingers, palms and soles wrinkles after prolonged exposure to water. Wrinkling is a sympathetic nervous system-dependent process but little is known about the physiology and potential functions of water-induced skin wrinkling. Here we investigated the idea that...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014
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