If your skin care routine could use some help, exfoliation is an easy add-on to keep your skin looking fresh, smooth, and youthful—and address that dry, flaky skin. But before you start Googling how ...

Seemingly paradoxically, the barrier function of skin mediated by the stratum corneum is vitally dependent ... trigger premature apoptosis of adjacent normal KCs that would lead to altered barrier ...

Cornified scales of reptiles increased their capacity to live in terrestrial environments. The stratum corneum is very thin, with little keratin. Skin is used for gas exchange. Thick keratin layer ...

Often referred to as the stratum corneum or acid mantle ... are important in maintaining normal skin function, and the ingestion of some strains of probiotic barrier has been shown to improve ...