Pemphigus is a rare autoimmune disease that causes painful blisters on the skin and mucous membranes, including the mouth, ...

Birth tissue donation is part of a growing statewide program with thousands of participants run through Tennessee Donor Services.

In this manuscript the authors established a novel three-dimensional culture system for stratified epithelia that allows epithelial cells to undergo epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and ...

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The skin serves as a critical barrier protecting the body from environmental threats, and its effectiveness largely depends on the lipid composition and organization within the outermost layer ...

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Matrigel is a solubilized basement membrane preparation extracted from the Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm (EHS) mouse sarcoma cells. At room temperature, Matrigel polymerizes into a three dimensional ...

For more than five years now, we have shouldered close to 50 different rain jackets in just about every name for rain. We’ve pulled together everything from the best jackets for bumping around town to ...

Cellular receptors are in many cases itself highly glycosylated polymers on the membrane surface, forming the glycocalix ... These bioadhesive polymer layers on the luminal side are bound via Ca +2 to ...

Let’s take a look at three common skin bumps ... Milia develop when oil, dead skin cells, and keratin get trapped under the skin’s surface, forming a bumpy layer. Though they are harmless ...