Michael Sand gives the reader an overview ofcurrent techniques in expression profiling of
miRNAs and their maturationmachinery in the skin. This book is a postdoctoral thesis on miRNAs
incutaneous malignant melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer with a focus on themiRNA processing
machinery and miRNA expression profiling. The researchpresented in this book was performed in
the Dermatologic Surgery Section at theDepartment of Dermatology Venereology and Allergology
of the Ruhr-UniversityBochum Germany and gives the reader an overview of current techniques
inexpression profiling of miRNAs and their maturation machinery in the skin.
