Cellular changes that accompany shedding of human corneocytes

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2430-2439

  Lin, Tzu Kai ^a,b   Crumrine, Debra ^a   Ackerman, Larry D ^a   Santiago, Juan Luis ^a,c   Roelandt, Truus ^a,d   Uchida, Yoshikazu ^a   Hupe, Melanie ^a   Fabriàs, Gemma ^e   Abad, Jose L ^e   Rice, Robert H ^f   Elias, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED CHEMISTRY OF CATALONIA IQAC CSIC   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID CERAMIDASE; OSMIUM TETRAOXIDE; RUTHENIUM;

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEOCYTE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROPHILIC CONTACT LENS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SKIN CELL; SKIN EXFOLIATION; STRATUM CORNEUM;

EID: 84866375465     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2012.173     Document Type: Article

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