The skin epidermis has become the paradigm for exploring how a stratified epithelium develops in the embryo and how, in the adult, it maintains an inner layer of proliferating cells that gives ...

Follicle epithelium has long been recognized as a source of epidermis in healing wounds. Indeed, clinically, this phenomenon underpins autologous split-thickness grafting, a process in which the ...

Skin epidermis is a particularly suitable system for our investigation for the following reasons: Well-defined physiological system: Skin is composed of two compartments, the epithelial epidermis and ...

In pemphigus foliaceus, anti-Dsg1 antibodies produce blister formation in the upper epidermis ... maintain cell–cell adhesion of the mucosal epithelium. In mucosal-dominant type of pemphigus ...