epidermis


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Synonyms for epidermis

the tissue forming the external covering of the body

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Synonyms for epidermis

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Over 21 months, the regenerated epidermis healed and remained stable even when subjected to mechanical stress.
The epidermal cell walls on the upper and lower epidermis of both populations were observed to be straight.
They observed that the repair of the skin epidermis involves the activation of very different stem cells that react the same way to the emergency situation of the wound and have the power to completely restore the damaged tissue.
Also irradiation time of 2 min, 5 min, 7 min, 10 min, 15 min, 20 min, and 30 min was taken for Staphylococcus epidermis and Staphylococcus aureus when the light power density was fixed at 5.273 mW/cm .
They are in anomocytic type and have two epidermis cells (Fig.
Histopathological features showed atrophic epidermis, intraneural inflammation, numerous epithelioid cells, many lymphocytes around the granuloma (Fig.
Keratinocytes are the main cells found in the epidermis. These undergo progressive differentiation as they move from the basal layer (where cell division occurs) up though the spiny and granular layers and into the stratum corneum, where they lose their nuclei and form the outermost layer of the skin.
These reconstructed human skin equivalents demonstrated with fully differentiated epidermis could closely resemble native human epidermis, [sup][16],[17] therefore providing a morphologically relevant means to assess skin irritation and to research the skin-related disease in vitro .
Vista superficial: epidermis adaxial formada por celulas con forma rectangular o poligonal dispuestas oblicuamente y epidermis abaxial formada por celulas con forma poligonal dispuestas verticalmente; estomas presentes solo en regiones intercostales de la superficie abaxial, formados por seis celulas subsidiarias (dos laterales a cada lado de las celulas oclusivas y dos terminales) y dos celulas oclusivas.
The skin of extant fishes consists of an epidermis and an underlying dermis with glands, lateral lines and receptors, however differences occur in the structure and thickness of fish skin composition due to the differences of species and their environments (Jiang, 2012; Lei et al., 2012; Shi, 2013; Regueira et al., 2016).
It has been shown that the epidermis and the upper dermis take up oxygen from the surroundings, and not only from the blood vessels.